An index of the archetypes.
Each entry traces a figure's essence, the traits through which it shows up in healthy expression, and the shadow it casts when held badly.
Jung never closed the list. "There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life," he wrote, warning that any attempt at an exhaustive enumeration would be a futile exercise (CW 9i, §80). So why ten?
The ten gathered here are Jung's own — not the twelve brand personalities of later marketing literature. Four are structural: the Self, the Persona, the Shadow, and the Anima/Animus, components Jung argued belong to every psyche. Six are archetypal figures he returned to across the corpus: the Hero, the Trickster, the Wise Old Man, the Great Mother, and the Divine Child. A canon by emphasis, not by exhaustion.
The Self
The center and the whole.
The Persona
The mask shaped by the world.
The Shadow
Everything the ego has refused.
The Anima
The contrasexual soul-image in a man.
The Animus
The contrasexual soul-image in a woman.
The Hero
The libido that wrests consciousness from the deep.
The Trickster
A collective shadow figure who brings new form.
The Wise Old Man
The spirit that arrives at the impasse.
The Great Mother
The matrix that gives life and reclaims it.
The Divine Child
Wholeness in its smallest, most exposed form.
This index presents the archetypes Jung himself named and developed in the Collected Works. It does not present the twelve-archetype framework popularized by Carol S. Pearson and Margaret Mark in The Hero and the Outlaw (2001), which is a branding and marketing model derived from — but not equivalent to — Jung's writings.