progress in getting to know the outside world. But it didn’t come one iota closer either to acquiring the knowledge of itself as inner substance or the knowledge of the foundation that holds and initiates its own psyche. At one time Jung characterized this situation in the following way: “Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair. We are absolutely convinced that even with the aid of the latest and largest reflecting telescope, now being built in America, men will discover behind the farthest nebulae no fiery empyrean; and we know that our eyes will wander despairingly through the dead emptiness of interstellar space” [1; 107]. And further he adds: “While becoming more scientific our world becomes more dehumanized”. [1; 86]. These words are the evidence of his clear understanding the problem. But his main accomplishment was in that he didn’t just see the problem, but being intelligent and well educated he new the way of solving it: “We are finally turning to the wisdom of all times and all nations only to discover that the most valuable words were actually delivered long ago in the finest language – the language of symbols”[1; 107].
In our opinion Jung’s mistake was in that information recorded in the unconscious isn’t just of the universal but also of individual origin, as with instincts and other cultural traditions. And it’s probably in this part where lies the main distinction between our perception of the basis for the human psyche and that of the author’s of analytical theory, who was first to bring up the concept of archetypes in psychology. This is what he says: “…I have chosen the term ‘collective’ since this part of the unconscious is not
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