- ◐ Shadow
Jung’s name for the part of the personality that the conscious ego rejects and does not see in itself, which it then tends to meet in other people. The most accessible of his archetypes, and the one he said must be faced first.
- ◯ Persona
Jung’s name for the face a person turns to the world, the attitude adopted to meet what society expects. Necessary for adaptation, and a problem only when the ego takes the mask for the whole person.
- ☽ Anima
Jung’s name for the unconscious feminine figure in a man, the personification of his unconscious, met in moods, in dreams and in the women onto whom it is projected. The companion term is the animus.
- ☉ Animus
Jung’s name for the unconscious masculine figure in a woman, the personification of her unconscious, met in opinions held with unexplained force, in dreams and in the men onto whom it is projected. The companion term is the anima.
- ◉ Great Mother
Jung’s mother archetype in its mythological form, the goddess who gives life and takes it back. Jung gave the personal mother limited weight and placed the numinosity in the figure projected on to her; Erich Neumann’s 1955 monograph fixed the name.
- ✦ Child
Jung’s name for the child motif of myth, dream and fantasy, the divine or wonder-child of miraculous birth and abandonment, which he read not as a memory of childhood but as a symbol of beginnings and of the self. Not the same thing as the 1990s “inner child”.
- ⚔ Hero
Jung’s reading of the mythic hero as a personification of psychic energy and of the ego’s struggle to win consciousness from the unconscious, first set out in 1912 and distinct from Campbell’s later monomyth.
- ⚡ Trickster
Jung’s name for the mythic figure of appetite, cunning and disorder, which he read in 1954 as a collective shadow: a portrait of an earlier, half-animal stage of consciousness that a people keeps alive in story and festival.
- ☿ Wise Old Man
Jung’s name for the personified form the unconscious takes when it offers knowledge, counsel or meaning the conscious mind lacks, met as magician, teacher, doctor, priest or grandfather in dreams and tales. He also called it the archetype of meaning, and earlier the mana personality.
- ✺ Self
Jung’s name for the totality of the psyche, conscious and unconscious together, and for the centre that orders it; the archetype of wholeness, whose symbols he found he could not distinguish from the God-image.