1. ARCHETYPES VS
STEREOTYPES

2. What is the difference between an archetype and a stereotype?
Let’s look at the definitions:
Archetype: the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are made or on which they are based; a model or first form.
Stereotype:- a method of producing cast-metal printing plates from a mold made from a form of type matter in papier-mâché or some other material
- a set of simplistic and standardized conceptions or images (generalizations) that have grown stable through a fixed usage (a « cliché », which in French means a «photograph »)
According to you, where do archetypes come from? And where do Stereotypes comes from?...

3. …Archetypes are God-made, when stereotypes are man-made
…Archetypes are God-made, when stereotypes are man-made. In other words, an archetype is a divine model, when a stereotype is a worldly (and so evil?) mold…
« Can you see the big difference between these two words? A stereotype aims for things to be the same. Much like Satan wants us to all be the same-- no agency, no individuality, no deviations from what he wants. He tries to teach us that we need to fit into a certain rigid form. He makes us believe that if we aren't doing everything the man next door is, if we aren't as "good" as the people in our church, or if we don't dress or look like the woman down the street then our value decreases. Hell is paved with stereotypes, which is why no one likes being stereotyped.
God on the other hand glories in diversity. You only have to take a brief glance at the world and its millions of types of insects, plants, and animals to discover that fact. Not one of God's creations is exactly the same, they are each unique. Yet each monkey, tree, beetle, snowflake or person is derived from a divine archetype and possess unique characteristics that make it what it is.
God has told us that for each thing he has created he has an original pattern. In D&C 29:31-32 we read that,
"...by the power of my Spirit created I them; yea, all things both spiritual and temporal-First spiritual, secondly temporal, which is the beginning of my work; and again, first temporal, and secondly spiritual, which is the last of my work—"
Also in Hebrews 8:5 Paul explains that priests who serve in the temple "... serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things.
In a similar sense all men and women are created in archetypal images as well... the image of God. In Genesis 1:26-27 it reads, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness…”

4. We want to follow the patterns set by God, which give us a model while still enabling us to exercise our agency, creativity and individuality and then truly progress to finally become Gods and Godesses ourselves.
We do not want to be forced into a mold which deny who we really are, the strengths and talents that God gave us as individuals, and which infringe upon agency. Stereotypes are Satan’s counterfeit of archetypes…
Here is a passage of a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland at the Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting (February 9, 2008)

5. Patterns and Replicas
“Let me use a parable that I hope can make this point, whatever your marital or family circumstance. For lack of a better title, I call it “The Parable of the Homemade Shirt.” My mother, bless her, was a marvelous seamstress. In my childhood years, when money was short and new clothing hard to come by, she would sometimes make clothing for us to wear to school. I would see a shirt in a store window or in a mail-order catalogue, and my mother would say, “I think I can make that.” By looking at the shirt as closely as she could, she would then cut cloth and put in seams to a degree that was close to the expensive original.
I pay her the tribute of being both willing and able to do that. But she didn’t like to do it that way. While she could study the commercial product and come close, what she really wanted was a pattern. A pattern helped her anticipate angles and corners and seams and stitches that were otherwise hard to recognize. Furthermore, if she went back for a second or a third shirt, she was always working from a perfect original pattern, not repeating or multiplying the imperfections of a replica.
I think you can see my point and hers. We are bound to be in trouble if a shirt is made from a shirt that was made from a shirt. A mistake or two in the first product—inevitable without a pattern—gets repeated and exaggerated, intensified, more awkward, the more repetitions we make, until finally this thing I’m to wear to school just doesn’t fit. One sleeve’s too long. The other’s too short. One shoulder seam runs down my chest. The other runs down my back. And the front collar button fastens behind my neck. I can tell you right now that such a look is not going to go over well in the seventh grade.

6. The Ideal Pattern from God
Now, I hope this helps you understand why we talk about the pattern, the ideal, of marriage and family when we know full well that not everyone now lives in that ideal circumstance. It is precisely because many don’t have, or perhaps have never even seen, that ideal and because some cultural forces steadily move us away from that ideal, that we speak about what our Father in Heaven wishes for us in His eternal plan for His children.
Individual adaptations have to be made as marital status and family circumstances differ. But all of us can agree on the pattern as it comes from God, and we can strive for its realization the best way we can.
We who are General Authorities and general officers are called to teach His general rules. You and we then lead specific lives and must seek the Lord’s guidance regarding specific circumstances. But there would be mass confusion and loss of gospel promises if no general ideal and no doctrinal standard were established and, in our case today, repeated. We take great strength in knowing the Lord has spoken on these matters, and we accept His counsel even when it might not be popular.
Thank you for understanding why we are concerned about protecting all members of families, whatever your age, and why we speak in opposition to trends or forces that would seek to destroy any aspect of God’s eternal plan of happiness. How grateful we are that the Lord has said, “I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived” (D&C 52:14)”

7. 1) - Can you find examples of archetypes in the LDS religion?
- Can you find examples of stereotypes in the LDS religion?
2) Can you find examples of stereotypes in your culture? Other cultures? Movies or literary books?