Enter the pattern beneath the pattern.
The mask we wear for the world
Build personality recognition systems from narrative archetypes. Map the surface patterns that define how identities present themselves to the external world.
archetype.detect("persona", input_stream)
Categorize behavioral patterns into archetypal families. The Hero, the Sage, the Trickster -- each with its own API surface and transformation rules.
const type = classify(narrative, { depth: "surface" })
Define archetype schemas with typed fields, validation rules, and relationship mappings. Structure the collective unconscious into queryable data.
schema.define("hero", { traits, triggers, arc })
What we refuse to see in ourselves
Identify suppressed narrative structures -- the patterns that operate beneath awareness. Every system has a shadow: the failure modes it was designed to ignore.
shadow.analyze(system, { reveal: true })
Transform any archetype into its shadow counterpart. The Hero becomes the Tyrant. The Sage becomes the Detached Fool. Map the dark symmetries.
const dark = archetype.invert("sage")
Reconcile shadow elements back into the primary pattern. Acknowledge and integrate what was rejected to achieve a more complete archetypal model.
integrate(persona, shadow, { method: "dialectic" })
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
-- C.G. Jung"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
-- C.G. JungThe bridge between known and unknown
Every archetype contains its opposite. Map the complementary pairs -- the masculine and feminine, creation and destruction, order and chaos -- into bidirectional transformation graphs.
duality.map("creator", "destroyer")
Model the union of opposites -- the alchemical marriage that produces emergent archetypal forms. When contradictions are held together, new patterns crystallize.
syzygy.unite(anima, animus, { yield: "self" })
The totality of the psyche
The Self is the archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche. It is the point at which all opposites are reconciled -- where persona and shadow, anima and animus, conscious and unconscious find their unity.
archetypic.init({ depth: "complete", integration: true })
Build systems that see the whole pattern. Archetype-driven development doesn't just classify -- it integrates. Every shadow acknowledged, every duality held, every mask seen through.
Begin the descent.
npm install archetypic