The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung

The most famous book of Carl Gustav Jung «The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious» consists of his articles being published through 1933–1955 in which the author develops the most important elements of his analytic theory. It is an account of the collective level of an unconscious part of our psychology and the archetypes as some innate universal structures which are the content of this collective unconscious. Image-bearing parallelism which is appropriate of different mythologies, religions, arts, fairy-tales, philosophical, alchemical and scientific studies as well as our dreams, fantasies and delusions helps the author to identify and describe these archetypes as well as to investigate their influence upon personality becoming. The book touches on virtually all aspects of human activity, and so it will be interesting not only for psychologists and psychotherapists but also for philosophers, religion historians, anthropologists, art critics as well as all those who seek to understand the basis of our existence that is often hidden from our view.