Contrary to the prologue of the Gospel (“In the beginning was the Word”), the first thing in the life of any person is work, through which archetypes are manifested. Why is that? But what about prehistoric times, when articulate speech had not yet formed? All creatures exchanged symbols that were understandable to each other, and primitive people were no exception. However, they strived to move forward, tamed the fire and tried to catch up with the sun, stubbornly running towards the horizon. They didn’t speak - they felt and acted. Just remember Tarzan from the novels of Edgar Burroughs, raised by gorillas and drawn to everything human intuitively, out of interest. And the characters in the novels of Joseph Roney Sr., who searched for an extinguished fire and tamed wild animals! Or the difficult and dangerous fate of prehistoric people from the stories of Joseph August. People read about their adventures and trials not for the sake of polished dialogues and verbal games, but for the sake of what unites them with us even through centuries, traditions and wars - common, truly primitive archetypes, born before us. However, Jung warns that Due to the growing scarcity of modern symbols, which have been massively lost along with the lost faith in mysticism, the occult, the peculiarity of religious experience, one can fall into the trap of a foreign culture. “You should not cover your nakedness with oriental clothes,” writes Jung, “but it is worth looking for sacred symbols and learn to interpret them." After all, if we refuse to study the fairy tales and myths of other peoples, then how will we find out what exactly makes us all united? It is for this purpose that I would like to talk about the main archetypes that relate to each person and help to express certain feelings. For example, the image of a woman - real, strong, wise - evokes warm feelings and is perceived as an archetype of a mother, bestowing something good, giving shelter and promising fertility. But someone sees the mother from the dark side - swallowing, poisoning, awakening fear and leading to the very bottom of the abyss. And what do we see in the image of the mother? Do we like this image? Do we feel a kinship with him? Spiritual intimacy? It may be difficult to answer right away. Your relationship with your mother is deeply personal, connecting you to each other on unconscious levels. And, before touching them, let's turn to ourselves - to those primitive images that fill us from birth. According to Jung, the many archetypes swarming in the collective unconscious give us enormous spiritual freedom. By learning to correctly decipher primitive messages, we can remove the shackles from our psyche and, perhaps, heal old wounds. We see reflections of basic archetypes in religion, art, dreams and, of course, in fairy tales - these are universal human ideas designed to influence our emotions and attitude towards the world. ________________________________________________________________ How do you like this text? Do you feel that something archetypally important is missing in life?_______________________________________________________________Excerpt from: The method of complex fairy tale therapy as a technology for the prevention of drug addiction among minors: Educational and methodological manual / comp. S.S. Kanavina, V.I. Rerke. – Irkutsk: Center for Operational Printing House IP Yumasheva A.N., 2022. – 168 p..