The significance of the motives of transformation

In this article, the deep meaning of fairy images is revealed by the methods of Jungian psychology. In Uzbek folklore, the motives of transformation were mainly associated with shamanism and totemism. Totemism gave answers to questions about why heroes turned into a specific species of animals, while shamanism emphasized the possibility of transforming a shaman into an animal, and, in general, the features of shamanism. However, the motives of transformation in totemism and shamanism do not fully capture the meaning of transformation in oral folk art. Since they do not answer such questions as to why this or that hero is being transformed, what was needed for a transformation in a certain plot. In search of an answer to the question of the cause of the transformation, scientific research was carried out. The author compares unconscious mental processes with the dynamics of mythological and fairy-tale images, clarifying much of what was previously inaccessible to our consciousness. The themes of fairy tales are universal, and the fairy tale language is full of symbols typical of the unconscious, therefore the analysis of fairy tales is one of the approaches to working with archetypal ideas and characters of the collective unconscious. We will focus on just one of the explanations that coincide with our opinion.