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The concept of “archetype” draws attention when examining literary texts in terms of content. The “archetype” is a concept introduced by C. Gustav Jung and meets the reflections of the “collective unconscious” in the human world. Jung divides the unconscious into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Archetypes are the basic elements of this collective unconscious. By collective unconscious, it is meant the existence of all kinds of emotional phenomena (anxiety, fear, shame, arrogance, etc.) that people are innate but not aware of. In contrast, the personal unconscious refers to the behaviors that people experience in their personal lives and that are influenced by those experiences. While the collective unconscious covers the general, the personal unconscious covers the more specific. This is where Jung's concept of archetype comes into play. In the theory that Jung called “Archetypal Symbolism”; “myth, fable, story, legend, etc.” It is stated that the narratives -in the context of-content- covertly the common values and attitudes of humanity. Each of these latent values and attitudes is basically an archetype. In this context, each basic archetype has its own characteristics. In a way, archetypes are the meeting point of primitive man and modern man. Although there are many archetypes, it is seen that Jung mostly focused on archetypes such as “Shadow”, “Supreme Individual”, “Persona”, “Anima/Animus” and “Inner/Whole Self”. The archetypes in question have been systemized in a broader and more detailed way in Joseph Campell’s line of “separation-initiation-return”. Campbell analyzed Jung's archetypes along this line and interpreted them with examples.
Literary works are not only the expression of aesthetic and spiritual pleasure, but also the imaginary interpretations of the common unconscious. Tales is one of them. It contains many archetypal elements. Identifying and analyzing these archetypes; It is also important in terms of determining the common values and attitudes, beliefs and judgments of humanity. In the article, 50 fairy tale texts from Nedim Bakırcı’s “Niğde Tales” were scanned. The aforementioned tales were examined in the context of the acretypic context and the tale “Golden Nightingale” was chosen. In the study, the “Golden Nightingale” tale will be examined within the framework of Jung’s “Archetypal Symbolism” theory, and the results will be reached by analyzing the selected text on the axis of fairy tale and theory.