Understanding how ancient wisdom and myths map onto modern personality science can reveal surprising insights about your psychological strengths.

An archetype is a model or pattern. In psychology, archetypes are studied as character types that have existed in fact or fiction over centuries and unconsciously still serve as models for behavior.

The narrative of human existence has long been shaped by archetypes—universal patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion that resonate deeply across cultures and epochs. Derived from Carl Jung's ...