Архетипът на духа в процеса на женското развитие („Момата, омъжена за крилат змей“) (втора част)
Spirit Archetype in the Process of Feminine Development („The Maiden, Married to the Winged Dragon“) (Second Part)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to describe the process of individuation in feminine development. It is done by outlining the symbolic suggestions of the Bulgarian fairy tale ‘The maiden, married to the winged Dragon’. This tale is a methaphoric story about psychological transformation of the earthly woman, who is condamned and blessed to search for her husband, the spirit. However the spirit in the tale is not the abstract and ghostly spirit of Christianity but the spirit Mercurius, highly valued by alchemists. Integration of this spirit archetype is based on realization of its volatile, spontanious, hermaphroditic nature – Mercurius can be both – material and spiritual, divine and human, wingless or winged dragon, one or many, masculine and feminine. Mercurius is spiritus rector in the process of individuation, the process through which the lower and the material is transformed into the higher and the spiritual and vice versa. As an unity of opposites Mercurius is not only a spiritus rector but also is an embodiment of the Self.

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