Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

by Robert A. Johnson

The root arche in Greek meant “the first,” and type meant “impress,” “imprint,” or “pattern.” Psychological archetypes, then, are the pre-existing “first patterns” that form the basic blueprint for the major dynamic components of the human personality. In a real sense, when we look at the types, we realize that it is they, in combination, that make us identifiably human. They are inborn within us as part of our inheritance as members of the human race.

Conscientousness as fundamental human archetype