These primordial image patterns and situations evoke startlingly similar feelings in both reader and author.
Archetype, (from Greek archetypos, "original pattern"), in literary criticism, a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.
According to Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, or universal primordial images and ideas.
Her art has been seen as evoking primordial images of womanly power, the supernatural heft of indigenous Latin American religious ritual and the pain of exile from her native Cuba, which she left at 12, fleeing the Castro revolution.
The same Cosmic Microwave Background that gave us an image of primordial structures might also be distorted by gravitational waves with wavelengths as large as the size of the observable universe.
One of the startling things about the response to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is the way the movie burns through this kind of sophistication and reaffirms, for better and for worse, the primordial sway of the image: the people who love the movie, bound by belief, give themselves over to the ecstasy of the real.
The free mixing of compounds that the image of the "primordial soup" entails could just as well have been a "sexual beginning".
His decision to transplant the action of the "Ring" to nineteenth- and twentieth-century settings, in line with the leftist interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's "The Perfect Wagnerite," caused a legendary scandal; in "Das Rheingold," the audience was confronted with the image not of the primordial Rhine but of a hulking hydroelectric dam.
Some academics maintain that the nearby image of Eros, the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse, was added later, demonstrating the owner's predilections and strengthening the association of the bikini with the erotic.
"Primordial Wolf" My favorite picture thus far!! | Photographer: @yutsai88.
The video, projected onto a large rectangular screen to the rear of the stage, began with undulant, watery images that suggested some cosmic, primordial soup.
