The subject matter discussed in this thesis is the human experience viewed as a narrative structure and the basis for its argument is a series of novels named My Brilliant Friend written by the Italian author Elena Ferrante. The anthropological development of man has enabled him to guide his actions through the use language, ie. logos, and not to rely entirely on his biological predispositions led by instinct. Story becomes the strategic model which helps to direct human behavior. The story serves as a moderator which allows an individual to adjust personal life experience, wishes, and needs with the expectations of the social surrounding, and, in that way, it mediates individual and collective experience. That function of the story leads us to researching mythological aspects of the human psyche and the term Jung coined, which is the collective unconscious. On the one hand we have scientific (neurology, psychology) and narrative (mythology) implications regarding the study of human experience that points us towards a cyclical occurance in human behavior which, furthermore, influences the transformation of ones surroundings. Scientifically we could say that man is moving within known territory which borders with the unknown which arises every time when an anomaly emerges. The mythological view of the human experience shows a man (son-hero) as an explorer, he is a part of culture which is mythologically portrayed as a Great Father. The man is surrounded by nature (Great Mother) and he is moving within the world that is full of potential (chaos). Each of these elements has a positive and negative aspect that significantly influences a man’s psychological stability as an individual but consequently impacts the stability of the whole social group. The goal of this thesis is to explore ties between individal and collective identity within a person and which consequences they have on culture and literary production.