{Archetypes and Types on the Circle}[20th August 1989]

[Redbook6:214][19890820:2007]{Archetypes and Types on the Circle}[20th August 1989]

19890820.2007

It is unusual to be able to place any Individual, in terms of general character, exactly at any single degree of the Circle. This is because each Individual contains the potentiality of the whole Circle, with all its Degrees and all its Archetypes. At any time, one or more of the Archetypes may predominate in the general personality of any Individual; but it must not be forgotten that the others are also present.

Those in whom one Archetype does strongly prevail to the apparent suppression of all the others, tend to appear (in fiction* as in reality) as compelling but ultimately slightly uninteresting characters: powerful, but almost one-dimensional, arousing curiosity not so much as to what they are (as ordinary folk do), but more as to what they represent.

*including my fiction: in [2], xS is powerfully attractive (I believe) but [R] is more interesting in human terms – the Bishop and the Mistress, to me at any rate, even more so.

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