What's My Jungian Archetype?

What's My Archetype?

The term"archetype" has its roots in ancient Greek. The root words are archein, which means"old or original"; and typos, which means"pattern, model or type". The combined meaning is an"original pattern" of that all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are derived, copied, modeled, or emulated.


Carl Gustav Jung, the psychologist, utilized the idea of archetype in his concept of the psyche. He considered that mythic characters - archetypes - reside over the unconscious of people all over the world. Archetypes represent human motifs of our experience as we evolved; consequentially, they evoke feelings that are deep.

This is why they are called "Jungian Archetypes".

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Even though there are many distinct archetypes, Jung defined twelve principal types that signify basic human motives.

Each type has its own pair of personality traits and values, significance. Additionally, the twelve types are broken up into three sets of four, specifically Self, Soul and Ego.




The types in each established share a origin that is driving, for example types inside the Ego group are driven to fulfill agendas.

Most, if not all, people have a lot of archetypes at play in their personality build; nonetheless, one archetype tends to dominate the character generally. It can be helpful to know which archetypes are at play in oneself and others, especially loved ones, friends and co-workers, so as to gain personal insight into behaviours and motivations.

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The Ego Types

1. The Innocent

Motto: Free to be you and me

Core desire: for to heaven
Goal: to be happy

Greatest fear: to be penalized for doing something bad or incorrect

Strategy: to do things
Weakness: boring for their innocence
Talent: optimism and religion
The Innocent is also called: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic intimate, dreamer.

2. The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal

Motto: All Women and Men are created equal

Core Desire: linking with others

Goal: to belong

Best fear: to be left outside or to Stick out from the crowd

Strategy: develop solid virtues, be down to earth, the Frequent touch

Weakness: Losing one's own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships

Talent: hindsight, empathy

The Regular Person can also be called: The good old boy, everyman, the individual next door, the realist, the working stiff, and the solid citizen, the fantastic neighbor, the silent majority.

3. The Hero

Motto: Where there is a will, there is a way

Core want: to prove the value of one through acts

Goal: expert in

Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a"chicken"
Plan: to be competent and as strong as possible

Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight
Talent: proficiency and courage

The Hero is also called: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, dragon slayer, the winner and the group participant.

4. The Caregiver

Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself

Core want
Goal: to assist others
Greatest fear: ingratitude and selfishness
Strategy: doing things for others

Weakness: being exploited and martyrdom

Talent: compassion, generosity

The Caregiver is also known as: The saint, altruist helper.

The Soul ArcheTypes

5. The Explorer

Motto: Don't fence me in

Core desire: the freedom

Goal: to undergo life

Biggest fear: becoming conformity, trapped, and emptiness
Strategy: travel, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom

Weakness: aimless drifting, getting a misfit

Talent: freedom, ambition, being true to one's soul

The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim.

6. The Rebel

Motto: Rules are made to be broken

Core want: revenge or revolution

Goal: to overturn what isn't working

Best fear: to become powerless or ineffectual

Strategy: jolt, destroy, or interrupt

Weakness: crossing over to the dark side

Talent: radical freedom, outrageousness



The Outlaw is also known as: the misfit, The revolutionary guy, or iconoclast.

7. The Lover

Motto: You are the one that is only

Core desire: intimacy and experience

Goal: being in a connection with surroundings, work and the folks they love
Greatest fear: being lonely, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved
Strategy: to become increasingly more physically and emotionally appealing
Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing identity

Talent: passion, gratitude, admiration, and commitment

The Lover is also known as: The spouse, friend, romantic sensualist team-builder.

8. The Creator

Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done

Core want: to create things of enduring value
Goal: to realize a vision
Fear: mediocre eyesight or implementation
Strategy: create skill and artistic control

Task: to create culture, express vision

Weakness: perfectionism

Talent: creativity and creativity

The Creator can also be known as: innovator, inventor,

The artist, musician, writer or dreamer.

The Self ArcheTypes

9. The Jester

Motto: You only live once

Core want: to live at the moment with enjoyment

Goal: to have a Excellent Time and lighten up the world
Greatest fear: being bored or boring others

Strategy: drama, make jokes, be humorous

Weakness: frivolity, wasting time

Talent: joy
The Jester is also called: The idiot, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.

10. The Sage

Motto: The truth will set you free

Core want: to find the truth.

Goal: to utilize analysis and wisdom to comprehend the world.

Biggest fear: ignorance, misled or being duped.
Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and comprehension thought processes.

Weakness: can study details indefinitely and never act.

Talent: wisdom, intelligence.

The Sage can also be called: The specialist, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, specialist, mentor, teacher, contemplative.

11. The Magician

Motto: I make things happen.

Core desire: understanding the universe's laws
Goal: to create dreams come true
Best fear: unintentional negative consequences

Strategy: create a vision and live by it

Weakness: becoming manipulative

Talent: locating solutions

The Magician can also be called:The visionary inventor shaman medicine guy.

12. The Ruler

Motto: Power isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Core want: control

Goal: make a successful neighborhood or family
Strategy: exercise power
Greatest fear: insanity
Weakness: being authoritarian, unable to assign

Talent: responsibility, leadership

The Ruler can also be known as: The manager, leader, aristocrat, princess, queen, fighter, character model, manager or administrator.

The Four Cardinal Orientations specify four groups, with each class containing three kinds (as the wheel of archetypes shown above attests ).


Every group is inspired by its various orienting focus: sequence, liberty, socialness and ego-fulfillment.


This is a variation on the 3 groups of Types previously mentioned; however, whereas each of the types inside the Ego, Soul & Self places all share the exact same driving origin, the types containing the four orienting groups have different source drives but the same inspiring orientation.


By way of example, the Caregiver is driven by the need to meet ego agendas through meeting the needs of others, and it is a social orientation; whereas, the Hero, that can be driven by the requirement to fulfill self-improvement, does so through brave actions that proves self-worth. Understanding the groupings will aid in understanding the inspirational and self-perceptual dynamics of each type.

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