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Book: Archetypes in Religion and Beyond

Chapter: d. Archetypes as Metaphors

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43657

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Archetypal symbols are metaphorical developments from embodied schemas, through further and increasingly complex association. Just as metaphors die when they become literalized, reduced to a supposedly represented world, archetypal symbols become dead when they are projected as part of the represented world, rather than of our experience.

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