The article is devoted to the development of the ideas about archetypes as structural units of the collective unconscious. The diversity of views on the nature of archetypes and their classification are analyzed. Modern approaches to applied usage of archetypal analysis are discussed. Some aspects of practical application of archetypal analysis within the framework of the fairy-tail therapy are disclosed. Attention is focused on different forms of symbolic running through archetypal roles as an important means of individual and group psychological work. N.M. Ognenko’s classification of archetypes according to the elements of nature is thoroughly analyzed. The analysis is illustrated by the author’s functional scheme

fairy-tale therapy, applied psychology, the collective unconscious, metaphor, mythologem, spontaneous archetype, archetype field, archetypal analysis.

1. Efimkina R.P. Probuzhdenie spyashchei krasavitsy. Psikhologicheskaya initsiatsiya zhenshchiny v volshebnykh skazkakh. SPb.: Rech', 2010. 263 s.
2. ZinkevichEvstigneeva T.D. Master skazok. SPb.: Rech', 2011. 128 s.
3. ZinkevichEvstigneeva T.D. Osnovy skazkoterapii. SPb.: Rech', 2010. 172 s.
4. Mark M., Pirson K. Geroi i buntar'. Sozdanie brenda s pomoshch'yu arkhetipov. SPb.: Piter, 2005. 336 s.
5. Nagovitsyn A.E., Ponomareva V.I. Simvologiya: ot filosofskikh teorii do praktiki skazkoterapii. M.: Genezis, 2014. 304 s.
6. Ognenko N.M. Uznai sebya v skazochnykh obrazakh. SPb.: Rech', 2010. 152 s.
7. Platon. Polnoe sobranie tvorenii Platona v 15 tomakh. Tom 4. Leningrad: ACADEMIA, 1923. 192 s.
8. Samokhvalov V.P. Psikhoanaliticheskii slovar' i rabota s simvolami snovidenii i fantazii. Simferopol': SONAT, 1999. 184 s.
9. KHillman D. Arkhetipicheskaya psikhologiya. SPb.: B.S.K., 1996. 351 s.
10. SHafazhinskaya N.E. Lichnostnaya i professional'naya samootsenka studenta pedvuza. Moskva, 1986. 102 s.
11. YUng K.G. Psikhologiya bessoznatel'nogo. M.: Kogitotsentr, 2010. 352 s.