Hidden connection between the short stories Černý mnich by Anton Pavlovič Čechov and Opálová miska by Julius Zeyer; Jung´s theory.

The contribution attempts to show hidden connection between the short stories Černý mnich by Anton Pavlovič Čechov and Opálová miska by Julius Zeyer. The comparison of literary work written by two personalities of substantially different charakter was inspirated by the fact that in both short stories there could be proved the presence of a special phenomenon reffered to by Jung as the inner voice, the manifestation of the psachic non-I, the objective psychic. Jung´s studies on this theme then formed a valuable material for the theoretical basis of the work. The awareness of the role this phenomenon plays in mythology, religion and literature helped us to finnot only this hidden link between the short stories Černý mnich and Opálová miska but also, as we hope, a key to their interpretation. Presenting parallel thought structures we concluded our study by pointig out the relation between Jung´s theory and the ideas of some European philosophers.