life would be totally inseparable from the society. We certainly can’t deny frequent occurrences when a society affects people and their lives, but this happens primarily due to their lack of knowledge of themselves and their personal archetypical patterns, not because of a strong influence of the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
So where all this information concerning a person’s individuality could be stored? Let’s make an attempt to find it in Jung’s works. Human psyche or, as Jung puts it, his soul consists of three differentiated but interconnected systems. With his conventional approach of presenting human psyche in two spheres – the conscious and the unconscious one, Jung divided the latter into a system of the personal unconscious and the archetypes of the collective unconscious – these two segments being completely different from one another. “Ego” as conscious mind, made of supraliminal perceptions and ideas and responsible for human’s identity is considered to be the center of the consciousness. We will not analyze the conscious sphere since enough attention has been given to this issue by other psychologists. “What we call “psyche” or “soul” is in no way identical to what is contained in our conscious mind”[1; 27], where intellect, conscious ideas and attitudes, like many other notions, in no way associated with soul’s irrationality, are located. Jung emphasized that the wholeness of the soul can not be detected just by intellect. “Life is logical and illogical, rational and irrational…Psychology that caters to intellect alone is not practical…”.(Jung C.G. Über die Psychologie des Unbewu?ten). So “ego” seems to us as a fairly clear system analyzed enough and being in no need of any additional study for
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