A great place to start to study the concept of the use of Jungian archetype in art is to read Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
. Estes is a life long Jungian analyst, who explains in explicit detail how the psychology of the subconscious mind manifests itself in a wide variety of archetypes, whether in images, stories or in life. We react with tears and laughter and other ways we might not understand at the conscious level.