Pearson’s six

Pearson’s first scheme is a sequence rather than a set of types. The six are stances a person may pass through on the way to a fuller self: the Innocent who trusts, the Orphan who has learnt that the world is unsafe, the Wanderer who leaves to find a self, the Warrior who fights for it, the Martyr who gives it away for others, and the Magician who can name and change the world. The chapter order in the 1986 text runs from Innocent to Orphan, then Wanderer, Warrior, Martyr and Magician. The names changed with the editions. The printings of copyright 1986 and 1989 use Martyr; by the revised and expanded edition of 1998 that archetype is called the Altruist, the name the author’s site uses now. The six are the direct ancestor of the twelve of 1991, whose text folds the Wanderer into the Seeker and the Martyr into the Caregiver; the author’s current pages list “wanderer” and “Altruist” as subtypes of those two. The provenance point is simple: this list is Pearson’s, dated 1986, and none of it is Jung’s. No study has tested it.

Sources

• Pearson, C. S. (1986). The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-86683-527-5. Expanded edition, Harper & Row, 1989, ISBN 978-0-06-254862-7. Contents and copyright page (copyright 1986, 1989) read in the Internet Archive copy: https://archive.org/details/herowithin002330mbp
• Pearson, C. S. (1998). The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (rev. and expanded ed.). HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 978-0-06-251555-1.
• Pearson, C. S. The Hero Within (author’s book page, naming the Altruist). https://carolspearson.com/books-page/the-hero-within-six-archetypes-we-live-by