Archetypes

Also known as “archaic remnant.” Carl Jung believed that the human mind has a tendency to form representations of mythological motifs that cannot be explained by anything in an individual’s life.  Archetypes would be innate and inherited patterns of the human mind.  Bulkeley calls them “universal psychic images” (34).  Common archetypes can be found across cultures and across time, in art, literature, myth, and religion:  the wise old man/father, the hero, the mother, the crone, the child.  Archetypes would be the bedrock upon which dreams arise.    

Sources:

Jung, “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams"
Bulkeley, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming