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The Collective unconscious (n.) 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.

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The Collective unconscious (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠built at the intersection of the personality, social, and cultural systems.

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The Collective unconscious (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made up of mythological motifs or primordial images so the whole of the world's mythology is a projection of the collective unconscious.

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Collective unconscious (n.) 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.

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The Collective unconscious (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

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The Collective unconscious (n.) 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.

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

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The Collective unconscious (n.) 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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The Collective unconscious (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a deeper layer of consciousness than the personal unconscious which has contents and modes of behavior that are more or less the same everywhere and in all individuals, that are identical in all men and thus constitutes a common psychic substrate of a suprapersonal nature which is present in every one of us.

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The Collective unconscious (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠accessible only via the personal unconscious.

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The Collective unconscious's (n.) contents ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠are invariably archetypes that were present from the beginning. The contents of the personal unconscious, by contrast, are acquired during the individual's lifetime.

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The Collective unconscious's (n.) images ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠have a distinctly mythological character... as such, in form and content they coincide with those widespread primordial ideas which underlie the myth.