Quote Originally Posted by Delilah View Post
Don't you think that figures that represent an idea *might* also represent an archetype? That said, I have seen figures like Jesus typed on here so thought i'd give this a try. Of course what might be possible to do is pick a version of the figure that might have been represented in some literature and type that rather than a very generic idea of a figure such as what i started doing.
I think an idea and an archtetype is something very similar, but didn't Jung say that the archetype was "beyond type"? He said that if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I think the way a figure is represented for example in literature might be better than trying to type the idea of the figure, because writers can project some human qualities onto their charachters, including the non-human ones.