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Exemplar

Joan of Arc

historical · read by 3 of 6 traditions

Peasant girl called by vision — crowned a king, burned for it, canonized centuries later.

How each tradition reads them

  • Jungian

    The Hero

    Pearson 1991

    Called to arms by vision at seventeen; the warrior-saint whose trial transcript is history's first-person Hero's Journey.

  • Hero's Journey

    The Hero

    Campbell 1949

    Peasant girl called by vision — crowned a king, burned for it, canonized centuries later.

  • Nichols 1980

    Literal and symbolic charioteer of the Valois army — the Chariot as vision translated into military motion.

Where they sit on the lenses

Stage

  • Pre-initiation
  • Striving
  • Liminal
  • Integrating
  • Integrated

Affect

  • Gut · Anger
  • Heart · Shame
  • Head · Fear
  • Eros · Desire

Stance

  • Toward
  • Against
  • Away

Cluster coalescence

The archetypal tags above resolve into 3 clusters. Each cluster reads the exemplar in its own vocabulary; where more than one cluster surfaces, the exemplar themself is holding a structural tension.

Joan of Arc is read across divergent stances (Against vs. Away) and divergent affect centers (Gut · Anger vs. Head · Fear). The exemplar holds a tension their readers cannot — which is often why they endure.

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