Analytical Psychologist of Swiss C.G. Jung said that a fairy tale was not at all a personal creative writing but a collective work of a community where it holds in common. So we can find the same motifs and the same patterns of behavior in the fairy t...
Analytical Psychologist of Swiss C.G. Jung said that a fairy tale was not at all a personal creative writing but a collective work of a community where it holds in common. So we can find the same motifs and the same patterns of behavior in the fairy tales which we come across in other places. He thought also that we can trace the efforts for the development of the psyche in the stories of fairy tales as they talk about the struggle for the overcoming of the sufferings of human condition in the symbolic way. In other words, the fairy tale is not only an interesting story for children but a report of the development of humankind in which we can find many archetypes. It is the same with mongolian fairy tale Land of Sand Hill, as we can see many archetypes and many mythologemes in it: an old and sick king and his sons who depart for their own lives, the final triumph of the youngest, his previous vicissitudes, the encounter and the assistance of bride, the marriage and the return of the youngest, the beginning of new age with new couple. In the fairy tale read C.G. Jung the process of individuation which is the goal and the purpose of human psyche. We know that humankind have tried to develop his/her psyche by way of integrating his/her psychic elements, which C.G. Jung named the shadow, the persona, the anima/animus, and the self. We find this efforts in various forms in the lives of mystics and in the various works of fine arts, music, theatres as well. They turn up the struggles for the development of human psyche:the efforts for overcoming the instinctual drives and accomplishing a high level of spirituality which Jung called the process of individuation. We see this process in mongolian fairy tale the Land of Sand Hill also.