Percevel's Task
Perceval’s
development cannot be understood only as an example of the coming to
consciousness of one individual but also as a symbolic representation of a
collective evolution, conditioned by the age. Seen in this
light the figure of Perceval himself becomes a symbol and represents an
archetypal content. TGL 109
When
Perceval has to solve the riddle of the Grail, this means that he should make
his own psychic problems and his extensive inner nature
conscious. TGL 111