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The archaeological symbols, which form the main structures of collective out-consciousness, are systematized by C. G. Jung and transformed into a theoretical framework. Jung, focused on archetypes such as Spirit, Shadow, Mother, Father, persona, anima and animus, indicates that these archetypes play decisive roles in the individual’s journey of subjectivity. The archetypes that are revealed by the help of indirect symbols often come to us in stories such as myths, fairy tales and legends. It is possible to find archetypes of the spiritual world of the individual and the narrative, as the various cultural elements are found in the fairy tales, which are the product of social awareness. The Keloğlan Going to Be Married to His Wife is a fairy tale containing socio-cultural and psychological elements and also guiding the individual’s subjective journey. The journey of Keloğlan to accomplish the subjective transformation on the fairy tale plate and every obstacle he overcomes during this journey is a reflection of the archetypical images that exist outside his consciousness. These archaeological images are phenomena that reveal what the factors affect Keloğlan's identity in the social world and what the spiritual world. The individual journey, which represents the process of the individual’s recognition and understanding of himself and others around him, plays an important role in the perception of psychological processes. The individual journey and archetypes that we encounter on the fairy tale plate are a summary of Keloğlan's psyche. These archetypical images and individual journey will be identified as a result of the symbolic readings that form the main roof of the tale and contributes in a remarkable degree to the subjective transformation of Keloğlan. It will also be revealed from here how the social images are transmitted into the fairy tale.

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Archetypal symbols which are constituted to the main structures of the collective unconscious are systematized by C. G. Jung. Jung who focuses on archetypes such as soul, shadow, mother, father, persona, anima and animus, states that these archetypes play determinative roles in the persons' principle of individuation. Archetypes which are revealed indirectly with the help of symbols,  appear often in narratives such as myth, fairy tale and legend. It is possible to encounter various cultural factors in the content of fairy tales which are the product of social unconscious as well as archetypes belonging to the spiritual world of the individual and narrator. Erler Karısı’na Koca Olmaya Giden Keloğlan is a fairy tale that includes socio-cultural and psychological factors and also guides the persons' principle of individuation. In the fairy tale, Keloğlan departs to realize his subjective transformation and he encountered every obstacle during this journey. Archetype images is a reflection of his unconscious. These archetype images are phenomena that reveal Keloğlan's psyche. The individual journey, which expresses the process of recognizing oneself and those around them, enables the perception of psychological images. In short, the individual journeys and archetypes that we encounter in the fairy tale are a summary of Keloğlan's psyche.  It will be determined that these archetypal images and indivudual journeys are constituted to the mainframe of the fairy tale and those contribute incontrovertibly to the subjective transformation of Keloğlan. From this point of view, how social images are transferred to the fairy tale will be revealed too.