archetypal: significado y definiciones

An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype:"'Frankenstein'. .'Dracula'. .'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories"(New York Times).

An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.

In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.