Reading and the Collective Unconscious

During the last century several scholars and scientists published studies on mythology, folklore and fairy tales, stories that had started with oral storytellers in man's early history. They wanted to understand the persistence of these stories. Moreover, they knew certain story motifs were encountered in many unrelated cultures and time epochs.

Ideas developed from the emerging study of psychology. One of these ideas claimed these tales were necessary for the development of the human psyche. Th