A personality archetype can be described as a collection of common behaviors that exist in our collective subconscious. The concept was first devised by the 19th-century psychoanalyst Carl Jung. When he first wrote about archetypes, Jung suggested there were four that could be used to describe women: the Maiden, the Mother, the Wild Woman, and the Crone. In the 1990s, psychiatrist and Jung follower Jean Shinoda Bolen expanded on this model and described seven feminine archetypes based on the habits and character traits of associated Greek goddesses.
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