collective unconscious

is a rhizome. Below the unending growth, blossoming, and decay of life and civilizations remains something invisible, something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. This is the collective unconscious.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung

is built at the intersection of the personality, social, and cultural systems.

For Parsons, the Freudian superego has much in common with Durkheim's collective conscience. Both, he argued, refer to a common ground between the personality, social, and cultural systems (1964: 17-33).' (NET)

is made up of mythological motifs or primordial images so the whole of the world's mythology is a projection of the collective unconscious.

The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious introspective perceptions of the collective unconscious. Carl Jung

is the spirit which goes through the masses irrespective of our conscious convictions. Each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by it.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. Carl Jung

is the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. Carl Jung

is, in one sense, the accumulated human wisdom which we unconsciously inherit... in other senses it implies the common human emotions which we all share.

There are a number of ways in which unconscious forces play their part. The collective unconscious is a real fact in human affairs. It would need volumes to explain its various ramifications. We all participate in it. In one sense it is the accumulated human wisdom which we unconsciously inherit... in other senses it implies the common human emotions which we all share.

 not only sends one one's dreams, it also possesses the solution (insofar as it has foreseen every imaginable situation and every solution).

The collective unconscious is more dangerous than dynamite, but there are ways of handling it without too many risks. Then, when a psychological crisis launches itself, you are in a better position than any other to solve it. You have dreams and waking dreams: take the trouble to observe them. One could almost say that every dream, in its own manner, carries a message. It not only tells you that something is amiss in the depths of your being, it also brings you a solution for getting out of the crisis. For the collective unconscious which sends you these dreams already possesses the solution: nothing has been lost from the whole immemorial experience of humanity, every imaginable situation and every solution seem to have been foreseen by the collective unconscious. You have only to observe carefully the message sent by the unconscious and then decode it. Analysis helps you to read these messages correctly.

 hinges on the fact that nothing has been lost from the whole immemorial experience of humanity and it foresees every imaginable situation and every solution to that situation.

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collective unconscious