Archetipinis Herojaus Įvaizdis Strindbergo Dramoje „Kelias Į Damaską“
Archetypical Hero Image in Strindberg’s Drama „To Damascus“

Summary/Abstract: In the drama “To Damascus” August Strindberg opened archetypes of collective unconscious – the archetypes of mother and hero, accenting the first one. The article analyzes how the playwright creates this image using literary language. The analysis of the play is based on the theories of archetypes by Carl Gustav Jung, Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell: the archetype of the hero means the imprisonment of the human soul in the material reality – the kingdom of the Earth Mother, and the task of the hero is to get rid of her by a spiritual awakening. The article shows that the main actor in drama embodies an archetypal image of the hero and that the secondary characters are portrayed as a number of different aspects of the hero’s inner world. It shows how writer creates the process of a spiritual journey and liberation: in drama’s three parts the main character is tempted by the other players to forget his spiritual nature, to give up, is tested in aspects of the Earth Mother – time, space, recurrence, fate and frees himself from her through rebirth in a higher reality.

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