Sings and symbols in European culture

The first palt of this thesis defines notions of symbol and sign, presents basic information about scientific fields which examine symbols and signs and other fields of influence to this examination. The second part presents particular symbols of particular historical periods of the Eastern Europe from the Antiquity up to the present day. These symbols can be conlpared to arclletypes animus and anima of C. G. Jung. The goal of this thesis is to accentuate the importance of symbols and archetypes in our time, because their influence should not be underestimated even today.