Jungian archetypes?

Question

According to Jung, how many archetypes reside within our psyche? Does this differ from the popularised viewpoint of authors such as Caroline Myss? Just generally interested in what you know.

Answer 1

The use of psychological archetypes was advanced by Carl Jung, c. 1919, and generally adopted in the social sciences. In Jung's psychological framework, archetypes are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype are a complex, e.g. a mother complex associated with the mother archetype. Jung treated the archetypes as psychological organs, analogous to physical ones in that both are morphological givens that arose through evolution. [3]

Jung listed four main forms of archetypes:

The Self
The Shadow
The Anima
The Animus
Symbols of the unconscious abound in Jungian psychology:
The Syzygy ("Divine Couple"), e.g. Gnostic Aeons, Buffy and Angel
The Child, e.g. Linus van Pelt, Dawn Summers
The Übermensch ("Superman", the Omnipotent) e.g. Magneto, Iago, Rand al'Thor, Superman himself
The Hero, e.g. Siegfried, Batman, Beowulf, Doc Savage, Luke Skywalker, Odysseus, Neo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Great Mother, either good or terrible, e.g. Devi (MahaDevi), the Great Goddess, Glinda the Good Witch of the North.
The Wise old man, e.g. Merlin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Gandalf, Albus Dumbledore, Mazer Rackham and Mr Miyagi, Rupert Giles.
The Trickster or Ape, e.g. Reynard, Ananse, Robin Goodfellow, Br'er Rabbit, Bart Simpson, Mat Cauthon, Bugs Bunny, The Native American Coyote, and Loki.
The Puer Aeternus (Latin for "eternal boy"), e.g. Peter Pan, Count of St. Germain, Roland.
The Cosmic Man, e.g. Adam, Pangu, Gayomart.

Answer 2

I was just thinking of looking at archtypes to help me build characters in writing.
Ms. Myss seems to have developed another type of system.
Not sure about it.
But the first person who answered did a good job of describing and listing the archetypes.