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Archetype classification systems are used to divide and classify people into groups, or to classify an individual's personality types and traits. They are often recombinations of ancient archetypes. They are usually described in abstract or stereotypical terms, with the understanding that they are rough generalizations, and not universally identical or applicable. Most systems allow an individual to have many of the subtypes belong to them, e.g. western astrology's rising sign, sun sign, moon sign; or the gradient-scales of the two-factor models.
They provide a common/shared vocabulary, and ontology – A keyword-list for a set of paradigms, perspectives, reality tunnels, world views, and umwelts. The archetypes give us words and definitions and contrasts, for things like "my emotional state", and "my motivating factors", and a socially accepted way of talking about oneself and other people.
In a similar way, religious texts provide a culturally shared set of stories/allegories/legends/precedents/moral-fables.