Archetypes
Archetypes
26 mapsRecurring patterns that surface across people, eras, and cultures. The interior shapes that keep reappearing.
A-005
The Trickster
The figure who breaks the rules is not the enemy of order. The figure who breaks the rules is the mechanism by which order discovers what it has calcified around. Every tradition that endures has a Trickster built into it.
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A-011
The Wounded Healer
The therapist who survived addiction understands the addict's interior in a way the textbook cannot provide. The doctor who nearly died knows something about the patient's fear that the healthy doctor does not. The wound is not an obstacle to the helping. Under certain conditions, it is the qualification. Under others, it is the problem that has been renamed a calling.
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