A_Abandon - To be abandoned.
The feeling of abandonment, of being alone. The fact of being abandoned, for a being or an object. This archetype can be linked to the A_Chute archetype. Both correspond to deep things in us.
Can also be linked to sabi , a term that designates the markers of things that have lived.
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A_Abri - The shelter, the refuge, the greenhouse, the home, the nest.
Any place of life where one is sheltered from unfavorable external conditions. The house, the greenhouse... Related to the dialectics Inside versus Outside (D_IntExt) , Hot versus Cold (D_HotCold) . Often linked to weather haiku. Dives deeply into the unconscious of our first ages (childhood but also prehistory)
To be distinguished from the Closed place which has less semes. Warm in a house while it is raining outside is more of a Shelter than a Closed place.
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A_Absence - Absence of someone or something..
Absence of someone or something. This is not an element not mentioned in the discourse but what the author misses. A dear one, for example.
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A_Ame - The Soul of things.
The soul of the objects. They seem to have a life of their own, to have a look at situations. It is not a question here of personification but of the feeling that the object has a personal life.
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A_Appel - The Call.
Something is calling us. Differs from the Cry (A_Cri) because it is directed at us.
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A_Arbre - The Tree of the World.
Yggdrasil, the Tree that links the underground world, the ground and the celestial world. The one that supports the Sky.
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A_Ascension - The ascension.
The ascension, the ascent to Heaven.
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A_Aube - Dawn, the end of the Night.
It is the transition between the Night and the Day, the appearance of the Light, the beginning of a new day. We are still a little in the Night but the fear of the Darkness is gone.
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A_ChoseActiveEnfouie - Hidden active things
Any unnamed thing buried in depths, which would be active and would produce perceptible effects. Concept of the Unconscious.
To be distinguished from the ChoseCachee , which has no activity at the deep level.
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A_ChoseCachee - The hidden Thing.
Something not visible, not buried and which has a perceptible activity. It is not a Buried Thing, a notion related to the Unconscious, but simply not visible.
Not to be confused with ChoseActiveEnfouie which has an activity influencing the beings on the surface or A_Chtonien because the thing is not buried.
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A_Chtonien - Chtonian: related to the deep (Imaginary) of the Earth.
The Chtonian refers to the supposed telluric powers active in the underworld. It is the power of the Depths (in the material sense). We are in the domain of the Imaginary. even if it exists in geology (plutons, batholiths...)
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A_Chute - The Fall,the Decline,to die,to grow old.
Anything that is considered a decrease in status, a loss of level, usually as a result of the course of Time. The decline of beings or things.
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A_Ciel - The Sky.
The Sky. The immensity of what is above us. Without religious connotation.
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A_Clos - The enclosed place.
An enclosed place, surrounded by a boundary (e.g. walls), enclosed, not accessible. It does not have the protective function of the Shelter.
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A_Couleur - An active color.
A color seems to have an active role in the situation. It marks the discourse because of its importance.
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A_Cri - The Cry.
The cry. A being produces a brief sound. Without relation with the causes of this cry. It can be related to pain, fear, violence, effort. It is not necessarily a call for us.
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A_Cycle - Cycle of Time.
The cycle of seasons, years, lives. It can be repetitive like the seasons or a single cycle with a growth followed by a fall.
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A_Découvrir - To Discover, to explore.
To discoversomething.
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A_Eau - Water, the expanses of water.
Water plays an active role, more by its presence than by its action. Primal notion in relation with our Unconscious. Water is not opposed here to A_Feu (Fire) as an element.
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A_Espace - The Space.
The feeling that a large area plays an active role by its mere presence.
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A_Fenetre - A Window to another world.
It is an opening towards the Outside. A window that allows you to see another world than the one you are in. One can be outside or inside. It is the opening that is important. Sometimes, a mirror that shows the world.
To put in connection with the archetype of the parallel worlds.
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A_Feu - Fire
Fire as a primal element. Is not opposed here to A_Eau (Water) .
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A_Fragilite - Fragility, tenuousness, that survives.
Something fragile in a "hostile" universe. Who carries something with him.
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A_Fragment - Fragments.
A piece of an object plays the active role. It represents the object.
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A_Frontiere - The Frontier, the Boundary between two domains.
Any defined boundary, physical or imaginary, between two domains that are not necessarily different, but for which one feels that there is a transition between the two.If the Frontier is crossed, then it is rather the archetype of the Passage that is present.
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A_Indice - The clue, the sign, the revealing detail.
Something, a detail, reveals to us something hidden or invisible.
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A_Lumière - The Light.
Light in all its aspects, sometimes in opposition with Darkness. Natural light (Sun, Moon, stars), living light (fireflies), artificial light (lamps, lighting, lightning).
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A_LumiereNuit - The Light in the Night.
Everything that appears literally and figuratively as a light in the night. A hope, the end of the tunnel. A shelter. The lighthouse. The survival of something drowned in a "hostile" universe. It is something that saves us from the Darkness and its supposed dangers.
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A_Manque - The author is missing something.
The author is missing something but it is different from absence. It is a felt lack and not an objective one (non presence).
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A_Menace - The Threat.
The feeling that there is a latent threat. Something real, predictable or indefinable.
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A_Miniature - The Miniature.
A part of the World is present in a form of reduced dimensions in the discourse. It is often a reflection. Sometimes a model.
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A_Mort - Death.
Context of death (mourning, death, cemetery...) or death drive (war, violence...). One of our primal impulses with that of Life.
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A_Noir - The Black, the Darkness.
The black in the Imaginary. Not necessarily linked to the color itself but to its connotations.
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A_Nuit - The Night.
The primal night, with its darkness, its "dangers", its mysteries and our ancestral fears.
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A_ObjetActif - An object seems to have its own activity.
The object plays an active role and not simply a passive one (by its presence). It has an activity of its own. This is the difference with the A_Ame of objects in which it is the qualities of the object that are the active elements.
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A_Ombre - The Shadow plays an active part.
The shadow plays an active role in the haïku. It seems to have an autonomy and a kind of life.
Do not confuse with A_ObjetActif (active object) : here it is not an object but a shadow which has its autonomy
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A_Passage - The Crossing, the Transition.
Everything that is the passage of a stage, a milestone, from one state to another. The crossing of a pass, the passage of a barrier separating two zones. The bridges, solstices, new year...
Not to be confused with the A_Frontiere (Frontier) which is not crossed. or the A_Nuit (Night)
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A_Passé - The Past.
The Past has an active role. Something from the Past is the important active element of the discourse. It can be a memory, an object, an impression.
Not to be confused with A_Temps the feeling of time passing and not of the Past that reemerges.
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A_Petitsdieux - LIttle Gods.
Small deities, spirits, lares. Inherited from animism. Small deities or similar that surround us. Sometimes without any relation with a religion but only a belief that they protect us or are part of our life.
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A_Piege - The Trap.
A trap waiting its prey.
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A_PlaneEau - Something hovering over the Water.
An animal or shadow moves across the surface of a expanse of water. The image is present in the very beginning of the Old Testament. An image of our Conscious and Unconscious. It makes the link between two alchemical elements: air and water.
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A_PointActif - Active point (color, sound, ...)
Variant of the Color. Here, it is a dot, usually of color, that has the important role. In fact, this archetype illustrates the fact that it is the Unconscious that analyzes the images of our gaze. It is the unconscious that locates these points and directs our gaze to them. It can be colors or sounds.
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A_Porte - The Door.
It is the door as an opening and passage from one environment to another. Static, it is opposed to the Passage which is dynamic. It represents the potentialities, the openings towards another world.
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A_Reflet - The active reflection.
It is a reflection, in the sense of an image and not a luminous spot A_PointActif) which plays an active role. That of a mirror, for example.
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A_Rencontre - The Unexpected Encounter.
The chance encounter between two beings with a moment where something happens between them. It can be human beings, animals or something with a 'presence'. The meeting is often symmetrical; the parties have considered each other.
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A_Retour - Coming back.
The return home, to the past, to retrace one's steps, to find what one has left. The return of a cyclical situation (of the year for example).
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A_Reveil - The Awakening, revival.
Something wakes up, which was "asleep", which returns to a new life after a period of absence or sleep. It reveals itself.
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A_Route - The Road, the journey.
The Road in the mythical sense. The one that calls for a journey, that leads to far away with all the connotations of possibility. The Road with those who pass by and those we encounter on it.
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A_Sauvage - The Wildness, Freedom.
The wild world that is out of man's control.
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A_Separation - Separation, Parting, Farewells.
The fact of separating for a long time, of leaving each other in spite of his will. Not to see each other again for a long time. Not knowing if we will see each other again. Often linked to the theme of Death. Besides, don't we say, to leave is to die a little.
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A_Serpent - The Snake.
The snake is a strange animal. It is said to be linked to telluric (underground) powers. It often represents a threat. It is often found in symbols and signs.
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A_SeulNuit - Alone in the Night.
To be alone and especially lost in the Night. One of our primal but also childish fears. The fear of the Dark, and of its supposed dangers.
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A_Source - The Spring.
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A_Temps - Time.
The passing of time. The feeling that something has changed between two moments but not a moment in the past. It is the flow of time that is the archetype; often by one of its consequences.
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A_Vie - Life.
Primal impulse of life. Any manifestation of a being or a thing, to affirm its presence, its survival, sometimes in a context which is unfavorable to it.
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A_Voyage - The Journey.
The journey, the migration... Linked to the Road which is more in potentialities than the Journey which is action. It is the period of movement away from home that is important and not the goal, the destination or the reason for the journey.
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