archetype

1. An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned. · Near-synonym: prototype (sometimes synonymous)
2. An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
3. A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
4. According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
5. A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).

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