From Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious to individual archetypical patterns
From Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious to individual archetypical patterns.
(By Davidov A.N. and Skorbatiuk O.V.)
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It’s a well known fact that neither Sigmund Freud nor his student Carl Gustav Jung were the first scientists to start their quest in the field of the unconscious. Prior to them Carl Gustav Karus and Eduard Von Hartmann had worked on the philosophy of the unconscious, though the very idea, was once ousted by the fashionable empiricism and materialism of the time – the concept being naturally scientific in psychology. But despite the greatest discoveries in this area, the soul, as the basis for human psyche, was not only failed to be found but its very existence was denied. The results of this fact might be well observed nowadays in psychology, philosophy and medicine: no soul – no foundation, no foundation – no house, no pivot – nothing to put the rest on. And possibly not knowing the modern human being is the very cause of massive fragmentation or splitting of the conscience regardless of the diagnosis.
True we could be quite content with what we have already discovered in the fields of psychology, philosophy and religion but these findings don’t make us fully satisfied. Also, they don’t explain who we are, why we are in this world and what’s our purpose. In other words they don’t answer the questions of vital importance. In fact we don’t expect to be truly happy with answers to the most important every day questions. And the proof to this lies in general disharmony in various spheres of our lives as well as the very fact of continuous search for human soul.
We were quite positive that it was the profound or “deep” psychology that
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