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I am relying directly upon Freud's text.

There are eight total humans, but I cannot find a connection between those humans and the stages. If there is some clear statement in Erikson's theory that relates to the eight humans, then it is something from the text of the theory itself, and is not obvious from the Wikipedia summary. If you are referencing some other use of the number eight, then it would be better to state directly what you are referring to.