Which stories need to be told? Here I am a classic, holding for the old, the traditional, the ones of our own culture: Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Nordic myths; the Bible; legends and folktales. And these with the least modern marketing (updating, cleaning up, editing, etc.), i.e., with the least interference by contemporary rationalism, which is subject to the very narrowing of consciousness that stories themselves would expand.
Even if we be not Celtic or Nordic or Greek in ancestry, these collections are the fundamentals of our Western culture, and they work in our psyche whether we like it or not. We may consider them distorted in their pro-Aryan or pro-male or pro-warrior slant, but unless we understand that these tales depict the basic motifs of the Western psyche, we remain unaware of the basic motives in our psychological dynamics.
Our ego psychology still resounds with the motif and motivation of our hero, just as much psychology of what we call “the feminine” today reflects the patterns of the goddesses and nymphs in Greek myth. These basic tales channel fantasy.
— A Note On Story, Inhuman Relations, UE 7