objects of worship and learning, with full and clear understanding that he is the one most defenseless of the living creatures, sharing psychological ties with all of them. In our view it is one’s individual psyche which has the closest connection with nature and its components (animals, plants, minerals and natural resources) containing the records of the latter through the archetypes as their original patterns. Hence the thought: in trying to explain the symbols and their archetypes one should do so from the stand point of nature and only then applying Jungian approach of socializing some concrete images.
Note that the human situation actually weakened due to the growth in technology and its “confusing influence” on archetypes. Jung indicates that the life of modern man being overpowered by the cult of rational thinking isolates the conscious from the unconscious, leading to the natural imbalance between rational and irrational processes. As a result the unconscious “invades” the realm of the conscious mind to compensate for latter’s limitation. As Jung puts it: “The conscious mind ignoring the experience of the archetypes may result in their invasion its territory in the most primitive forms causing wars and social upheaval” [1; 17]. “Modern man fails to see himself as victim of his own ‘rational attitude’ thrown at a mercy of psychic inferno” [1; 85]. By “psychic inferno” Jung probably meant man’s overall confusion and isolation from our mad world with its wars, revolutions and mass psychosis. If Jung attributed the cause for social disasters to the “intrusions” of the collective unconscious, ours on the other hand is a firm belief that the latter in no way could result in the appearance of collective myths of any sort . We feel
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