Existential individuation as an energetic condition of personal development (case study of the fairy tales)

Continuing the study of existential models of human activity, the article considers the concept of individuation, archetypal hierarchy vividly expressed in mythological and fairy-tale plots. The authors discuss the process of individuation that consists in balancing of the conscious and the unconscious via the constant struggle between two opposites, as a result of which a person experiences a new existential birth.