Editing Archetype (section)

==Platonic archetypes==
{{Main|Theory of Forms}}
The origins of the archetypal hypothesis date as far back as [[Plato]]. Plato's ''eidos'', or ''ideas'', were pure mental forms that were said to be imprinted in the soul before it was born into the world. Some philosophers also translate the archetype as "essence" in order to avoid confusion with respect to Plato's conceptualization of Forms.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy, Seventh edition|last=Soccio|first=Douglas J.|publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning|year=2009|isbn=9780495603825|location=Belmont, CA|pages=128}}</ref> While it is tempting to think of Forms as mental entities (ideas) that exist only in our mind, the philosopher insisted that they are independent of any minds (real).<ref name=":3" /> Eidos were collective in the sense that they embodied the fundamental characteristics of a thing rather than its specific peculiarities. In the seventeenth century, Sir [[Thomas Browne]] and [[Francis Bacon]] both employ the word ''archetype'' in their writings; Browne in ''[[The Garden of Cyrus]]'' (1658) attempted to depict archetypes in his usage of symbolic proper-names.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}