Do Not Let the event Come True, or the Syndrome of an Unlived Life
The article classifies the etiology of archetypes that ensured the apodictism of mythological, legendary and historical heroes and plots of classical literature. Their hierarchy reflects the stages of development of legal European consciousness from premoral, moral and immoral eras (Nietzsche) to the responsible choice of self-conscious will.The filiation of cultural traditions is directed by the search for cognitive consciousness of ways to resolve the conflict between “compulsion of feeling” and “compulsion of reason” (Schiller). The apodicticity of archetypes evolved from the mythological Saturn - the time devouring its children - through Prometheus, Centaur, Sphinx, Oedipus, Orestes, Odysseus and Beowulf to “noble robbers” like Karl Moor Schiller and Rodion Raskolnikov Dostoevsky, emotionally inclined towards the revolutionary transformation of society. Our era, taking into account their experience that has enriched world culture, calls for the archetypal feat of personal development to come true in a responsible act.