"FATHER" MOSCOW VS "MOTHER" NOVGOROD: THE UNCONSCIOUS FUNDAMENT AND PSYCHOHISTORY OF AUTOCRACY’S DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
The article is devoted to analysis of unconscious competition “Father” of Moscow and “Mother” Novgorod in the history of autocratic power in Russia. The archetypal competition “Imperial” and “Sophist” scenarios of psychohistory medieval Russia based on the study of psychobiography tsars of Ivan III and Ivan IV, Metropolitan Zosima, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Nilus of Sora, the Metropolitan Macarius, Adasheva and Sylvester. Autocratic model of Ivan IV does not involve the “parent”, sophistic model of Novgorod as the Union of Church and state. The conflict of Ivan IV and Novgorod is based on the need of the spiritual, and the sovereign of catholicity. The king as the “Father” wants to combine the functions of state and Church authorities. This is the beginning of the sacralization of the autocracy in Russia. The king’s Father becomes the symbol that allows us to understand the peculiarities of the Russian collective unconscious.