THE SYMBOL AND THE ARCHETYPE IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERARY CRITICISM.

It is common knowledge that art wears many masks and often far less pleasingly. Art criticism, despite the protests of a few art and literary critics, is an ancillary activity to the artistically creative activity. Such an observation follows only the dictates of common sense. There was no art criticism, of any kind, before Plato and Aristotle. However, art itself has flourished, in more or less conscious form, since the Aurignacian-Perigordian period. To indicate that art established itself as a mode of relating to the world prior to philosophy is not to make value judgments as to the relative worth of art versus art criticism. Because existent, both are evidently necessary activities of the human spirit.