society is trying to substitute for those of its personal unconscious. True, after feeling the ground slipping away from under his feet, modern man can still last for some time on artificial formulas of the collective ideas. But what can really save him from imminent death is his return back to nature, not relocating to some suburban area “close to nature” as they were, but to his own inner nature, through getting to know himself and his own psyche.
All speculations presented in this article have been moving us to better understanding the contents of the unconscious stratum of human psyche, the ones which happen to be completely independent either from each other or racial or social factors. Even if we were to accept Jung’s theory of “dividing man’s psyche” we believe it would be his personal unconscious which contains some very definite individual structure or system meant to define his personal psychological and physiological characteristics, because the unconscious sphere of one’s psyche directly controls many physiological reactions. The personal unconscious should be able to tell everything of one’s personality not by examining it through its collective values, but in the light of its individual archetypes. It should be able to explain everything about a person with respect to his individual perception of the world and of himself, his purpose, his behavior both in the social and natural environment, his strategies and tactics, his way of thinking, his unconscious motivations, his needs, emotions, inclinations, preferences, meaning of his existence, etc.
After reviewing our both practical and theoretical research and focusing on Jung’s theory as to the influence of the collective unconscious on individual human psyche,
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