could help us in this search, the reason being the very fact that whatever “lay on the surface” had already been discovered, though unfortunately was not worth discovering. In Jung’s view deep psychology was similar to archeology and prior to him Sigmund Freud many a time compared psychoanalysis with this science as well, since according to him Jung dealt with the “excavation of soul”. If “archi” means “origin”, then deep psychology should deal with “archeological excavation” of human psyche rather than rocks, penetrating the former as the basis of consciousness. After all psychology like all other sciences is meant to study the universal in the particular, trying to find common patterns in something individual. But it’s well known that common patterns do not lie on the surface therefore scientists try to get to the bottom going deeper and deeper.
So we’ve decided one more time to try and find the very basis of human psyche, the cornerstone, which gives rise to the rest of the structure. And until the end of the tangle is found we won’t be able to unwind the latter in order to understand what human psyche (which someone may refer to as soul) is all about.
Since the main scientific source for our psychological research are materials primarily borrowed from Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) we would like to focus our attention on the works of this great Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychologist. It is important for analyzing his conception of archetypes and their effect on human psyche. By examining his theory our task will be to determine in what part our views on the subconscious are the same as those of Jung’s and where they are cardinally different.
Before we start discussing archetypes both in general and
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