“The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif—representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern. They are inborn forms of ‘intuition’, they are perceptions ‘a priori’, and even though the forms are unconscious, they nonetheless behave as if they were conscious ideas in that they seem to pursue certain goals. They are, indeed, an instinctive trend, as marked as the impulse of birds to build nests, or ants to form organized colonies.” (The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious §91)