The Professional Hero Archetype

Edy Nathan
2 min readOct 13, 2022
Photo by Jean Philippe-Delberghe on Unsplash

Archetypes are categories of people, characters, or voices that express fundamental aspects of human experience, including work and life balance. Archetype descriptions may vary across cultures but are universally recognizable. Think about The Good Mother or The Hero, and an image will come to mind. The same goes for all archetypal figures described by Carl Jung, the great twentieth-century psychoanalyst: The Father, The Wise Old…

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Edy Nathan

Author of “It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss” | Blogger for Psychology Today, Thrive Health | Psychotherapist | amzn.to/30vkR2W📕