COMMENT ON THE THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL SELF.

The article presents comments of the author on research paper "Critical Notice of the Objective Psyche," by J. Layard, published in a 1960 issue of "Journal of Analytical Psychology," on theory of the original self. According to the author, the theory of the original self grew from the empirical observation. Self-images can be observed in childhood and could be conjectured in infancy. The original state of the self was assumed to be a simple integrate without other manifestations than its wholenes.