{"licence":"CC0-1.0","generated":"2026-10-20","rows":[{"id":"anima","name":"Anima","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Psychological Types, Definitions: “Soul” and “Soul-image”","first_text_ref":"CW 6 ¶801–804 as quoted in Stein (1998) and Sharp (1991); the full theory is “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” (1928), CW 7","first_year":1921,"aliases":["soul-image","the woman in a man","My Lady Soul"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":"Q11958122","empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/anima"},{"id":"animus","name":"Animus","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Psychological Types, Definitions: “Soul” and “Soul-image”","first_text_ref":"CW 6 ¶801–804 (“Soul”) and ¶808–811 (“Soul-image”), as quoted in Stein (1998), Samuels (1985) and Sharp (1991); the full theory is “Anima and Animus” in “The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” (1928, revised 1935), CW 7","first_year":1921,"aliases":["soul-image","the man in a woman","animus-possession"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":"Q2510835","empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/animus"},{"id":"child","name":"Child","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"The Psychology of the Child Archetype","first_text_ref":"CW 9i ¶259–305 (span as given in Kalsched 1996); first published as “Zur Psychologie des Kind-Archetypus” in Jung and Kerényi, Das göttliche Kind (Albae Vigiliae VI/VII, 1940); combined edition 1941, English 1949, new German edition 1951; the child as symbol of the self already in the 1934 lecture, Integration of the Personality p. 94; the child in the adult already in the 1932 lecture “The Development of Personality” (CW 17)","first_year":1940,"aliases":["divine child","child motif","child god","wonder-child","puer aeternus","child archetype"],"renamings":["Hillman 1967: puer, paired with senex","Bradshaw 1990: inner child (popular self-help, a different object)","Pearson 1991: Innocent (a separately organised twelve-type system, not a renaming)"],"wikidata":"Q5253511","empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/child"},{"id":"great-mother","name":"Great Mother","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido","first_text_ref":"1912, where ‘the great mother’ occurs in passing (English as *Psychology of the Unconscious*, B. M. Hinkle, Trans., 1916, Gutenberg #65903, Part II ch. IV); the first dedicated treatment is “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype” (Eranos lecture 1938, revised 1954), CW 9i ¶148–198; CW 5 is the 1952 rewrite","first_year":1912,"aliases":["mother archetype","Terrible Mother","Good Mother","Chthonic Mother","Magna Mater","archetypal feminine"],"renamings":["Neumann 1955: the Archetypal Feminine, with Good and Terrible Mother poles","Toni Wolff: Mother, one of four structural forms of the feminine psyche (printed 1951, English 1956; her 1934 Zurich lecture on individuation in women preceded it)"],"wikidata":"Q1955964","empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/great-mother"},{"id":"hero","name":"Hero","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido","first_text_ref":"1912; English as *Psychology of the Unconscious* (B. M. Hinkle, Trans., 1916), Gutenberg #65903; rewritten as *Symbole der Wandlung* (1952), CW 5, whose paragraph numbers belong to the 1952 text","first_year":1912,"aliases":["hero archetype","hero myth"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":null,"empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/hero"},{"id":"persona","name":"Persona","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"The Structure of the Unconscious","first_text_ref":"1916; printed as CW 7, Appendix II; English as “The Conception of the Unconscious” in Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, 2nd ed. (C. E. Long, Ed., 1917), Gutenberg #48225. Defined in Psychological Types (1921), Definitions, “Soul”, CW 6 ¶801","first_year":1916,"aliases":["the mask","social mask"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":"Q6063277","empirical_status":"narrow","url":"https://archetype.guide/persona"},{"id":"self","name":"Self","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Psychological Types, Definitions (“Ego”)","first_text_ref":"Psychologische Typen (1921), Definitionen 26 “Ich” (CW 6 ¶706), Gutenberg #61543; the word is already used in chapter II (CW 6 ¶183). The free-standing definition, CW 6 ¶789–791, was written by Jung for the German collected edition of 1960","first_year":1921,"aliases":["the self","archetype of wholeness","central archetype"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":"Q1982425","empirical_status":"none","url":"https://archetype.guide/self"},{"id":"shadow","name":"Shadow","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925","first_text_ref":"Princeton edition (2012); the seminar is not in the Collected Works. The figure is set out in print in 1934, CW 9i.","first_year":1925,"aliases":["shadow side (1912)","the dark half of the personality"],"renamings":[],"wikidata":"Q286363","empirical_status":"none","url":"https://archetype.guide/shadow"},{"id":"trickster","name":"Trickster","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure","first_text_ref":"CW 9i; first published as “Zur Psychologie der Schelmenfigur” in Radin, Kerényi and Jung, *Der göttliche Schelm* (Rhein-Verlag, 1954), pp. 185–207; English in Radin, *The Trickster* (1956). Earlier uses of the word for Mercurius (CW 13, 1943/1948) and Satan (CW 11 ¶619, 1952)","first_year":1954,"aliases":["trickster-figure","divine rogue"],"renamings":["Pearson 1991: Fool, becoming Jester in Mark & Pearson 2001 (a separately organised twelve-type system)","Vogler 1992: Trickster as a narrative role in a screenwriting manual"],"wikidata":"Q56312891","empirical_status":"none","url":"https://archetype.guide/trickster"},{"id":"wise-old-man","name":"Wise Old Man","tier":"classical","originator":"C. G. Jung","first_text":"Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious","first_text_ref":"CW 9i; Eranos lecture 1934, printed in the Eranos-Jahrbuch for 1934 (1935), revised for CW 9i (1954); 1939 Dell translation, chapter 3, pp. 87–88","first_year":1934,"aliases":["old wise man","archetype of meaning","archetype of the spirit","mana personality","senex"],"renamings":["Hillman 1967: senex, paired with puer, as a style rather than a figure","Vogler 1992: Mentor (a screenwriting role; the label is Vogler’s, not Campbell’s)","Pearson 1991: Sage (a separately organised twelve-type system, not a renaming of Jung’s figure)","Moore & Gillette 1993: Magician (men’s-movement taxonomy)"],"wikidata":"Q2349934","empirical_status":"none","url":"https://archetype.guide/wise-old-man"}]}