Archetypal criticism originates from anthropology, psychology and literary criticism. It is also a new and international attempt for us to discuss about the origin of literature and its development. Archetypal Criticism is an important genre of the Literature Criticism. It has great impact not only on the West Literature Criticism but also on the Chinese Literature. As a means for analyzing literary works, archetypal criticism expands the space of literature analysis. It is also propitious for people to reveal the deep thinking and deep human psychology in literary works. In the field of today's art and literary criticism, archetypal criticism is still of important significance and worth studying.
