Prototype

Literature and philosophy

The prototype of a given subject is based on a Image representative strong, characterized, recognizable. To note: the extreme correlation bottom-form. The subject is not subjected to a state Particulier to define the prototype of it; on the other hand it is obligatory that it is alive and/or conscious, it can be Animal, Hybride, human Robot ic or , real or Imaginaire. Thus it is possible to just like define and evoke “the prototype of the police French” “the prototype of the Cheval of Course”, “the prototype of the Androïde R2D2 in the world of Star Wars” or “the prototype of the Elfe in the world of Tolkien”.

Although representative the prototype is not therefore a Image Fiable and Fidèle of the subject when this last is particular, it is important to understand that the prototype is faithful on in general a subject such as it is admitted by all thus “the prototype of Alain Delon” is a nonsense because the subject is then defined in particular and not in general. In the same way “the prototype of the Troll” is also a nonsense because here the subject is not defined, indeed “a Troll” is a term which exists in the Légende S Scandinaves, in imaginary worlds like that of Tolkien or in the Jargon of Internet and the definition of each one is quite different and their prototypes will be to it a fortiori .

It is important not to confuse the prototype of the subject and “the average subject”, the prototype is not defined according to Moyenne S but according to the characteristics Intrinsèque S, particular and identity common to all the particular subjects affiliated on the general subject.

The prototype thus divides always with the totality of the particular subjects affiliated on the general subject, the integrality of his characteristics; the reciprocal one is false, i.e. a particular subject divides some of its characteristics (principal or the most representative of what it is) with its prototype while preserving his characteristics Unique S which make of it a Individu with whole share.

One should not confuse prototype and Stéréotype which is two very different concepts; it is always necessary to keep in mind which a stereotype is the vision of a social group by another (for example the stereotype of the Maghrebian immigrant is not the same one among inhabitants of Nanterre as among Alsatian villagers), while the prototype is recognized like universal .

However, sometimes, a stereotype can be considered according to a general subject then the Nuance with the prototype of the same subject is difficult to encircle. In fact the prototype is independent of all a-priori and does not take account of any Convention, it is about the representation most accurately representative of what is the general subject and this most objectively that it is possible.

Psychoanalyze

See also: Prototype (psychoanalysis)

The Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung calls prototype what organizes and structure the unit of the psychic processes of the human being, as well as the Instinct of the animals. In the field of the representations, the prototypes are empty preforms which organize the mental images (thought, Fantasme S, dreams…) according to their own dynamisms. They are at the same time source of the instinctive life and the spiritual life (i.e symbolic system), and as much potentially destroying than creative. For Jung this concept of prototype is a concept Limite, hypothetical, since being able to be apprehended only through its effects. “When I speak about the Atome it is model which one built that I speak; and when I speak about the prototype, it is of its representations that it acts, never of the thing in itself which, in both cases, remains a concerning mystery the Transcendance. ” .

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