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Archetype vs Ectype - What's the difference?

archetype | ectype |

As nouns the difference between archetype and ectype

is that archetype is an original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype while ectype is a copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.

As a verb archetype

is to depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.

archetype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype
  • (literature) A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or object.
  • An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
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  • (psychology) According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

    • Usage notes

    Traditionally archetype'' refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character ''based'' on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See ''eponym for a similar usage conflict.

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    Verb

  • To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
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    ectype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) A copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
  • * 2001 , Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review , Issues 170-172, page 30,
    • If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes' are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ' ectypes .
  • * 2004 , Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible , page 38,
    • The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes'. But the ' ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
  • * 2008 , Ryan L. Showler, Archetypal and Ectypal Ideals in Kant's Practical Philosophy , page 51,
    • It is likely that little attention has been paid to the archetype/ectype relationship in Kant scholarship in the English speaking world partly as a result of inconsistent translations of the German terms “Urbild” and “Nachbild” that make it difficult to even notice the relationship.

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    * ectypal