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Language is among the most important subject matters of human thought. Philosophy of language and linguistics, both are concerned with fundamental questions, such as: How thought and language are related to one another? Is language solely an instrument through which humans can converse with each other and understand one another, or is it a mental faculty, affecting, articulating, and shaping our understanding of reality? How language can affect human existence? These are some of the major questions that linguistic studies have to deal with. The present article aims to probe the relation between language and mind, hence the relation between language and human life, based on Saussure’s linguistic theory. In this article, we will analyze the idea that language can affect human mind and can be considered as one of the a priori factors in the formation of human psyche, but this does not necessarily mean that we should have a deterministic reading of this fact and oppose human will and liberty. We will also claim that the ideal language would have to shape human consciousnesses and unconscious in an ideal manner, using its signs, signifieds, and nuances. This article uses descriptive and content analysis method.

With the advent of new literary criticism and its approaches, reading literary texts based on various worldviews became possible and the range of interpretations became wider which in turn helped readers to understand the meaningful similarities between different texts. According to Jung, archetypal criticism and elements of social unconscious have been embedded in human psyche and reflected in human mind and language. The concepts created by Jung, including ancient archetypes like persona, the wise old man, the shadow… and purposeful nature of human psyche leads to the process of individuation. One of the theories that is useful in analysis of these texts is the process of individuation by Carl Jung which examines stages of individual's evolution through scientific method.. Rumi and Jung are both trying to paint the human's path to reach perfection. The present study tries to extract archetypes from "The story of the Caliph Omar and the man who thought he saw the new moon" using data analysis and reorganize it by contraposition of elements from story by archetypes and then analyzing it using the process of individuation by Jung. This study was done as a library research with analytic-descriptive approach.