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Abstract
Cross-cultural research on the basis of Jungian psychology is not so much a laborious task as an inspiring one. However, conducting research on remote cultures, ones as different as the Polish and Korean cultures, turned out to be a challenge. Although we encountered dissimilarity in almost every area, our curiosity to discover the deeper premises conditioning human behavior motivated us to ask a question. How can we reach the archetypal sphere of both cultures? We intended to find out the archetypes dominating a given culture, as well as the ways the subjects experienced reality and functioned within it. We also aimed to discover the meanings that might be hidden behind the symbolic representation of archetypes present in a given culture. We were particularly interested in the influences of the Great Mother and Wise Old Man archetypes in the process of individuation in the research subjects, who served as representatives of the given cultures. A total of 140 subjects took part in our research. We applied our own projective method, which consisted of a set of eighteen colorful pictures representing six main archetypes described by C. G. Jung. This article presents the results of the first stage of our project, in which the subjects chose the picture with the greatest impact on them. The research indicates numerous similarities within archetypal phenomena, as well as the specificities of the individuation process in the representatives of both cultures.