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Complexions of a Mother-Complex Often in literature there exist characters that personify certain archetypes, or in other words exhibit a certain body of universally observable traits. C. G. Jung in his development of the theory of archetypes sets forth the idea of a mother archetype. Jung describes the mother archetype as being the symbols or qualities often used, specifically as it pertains to literature, in describing a mother, or some other mothering entity. This archetype, …

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