Collective Unconscious

Carl Jung: The sea and the unconscious

Source of Image: Kayaking the Unconscious “The sea is the favorite symbol for the unconscious, the mother of all that lives.” Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious The Psychology of the Child Archetype Paragraph 298 Collected Works 9.1

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C.G. Jung: “A secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being…”

“Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed. Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were. But ‘the heart glows,’ and a secret unrest gnaws at the…

C.G. Jung: ” Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious.”

Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious…. I. Definition The collective unconscious is part of the psyche which can be negatively distinguished from a personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and…

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C.G. Jung: “Just as the constellations were projected into the heavens, similar figures were projected into legends…”

Carl Jung: Projection of the Collective Unconscious The collective unconscious – so far as we can say anything about it at all – 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…

C.G. Jung: “The whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.”

Mythology as a projection of the Collective Unconscious “The collective unconscious-so far as we can say anything about it at all-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…

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C.G. Jung: “In addition to our immediate consciousness….there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature.”

“In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective…

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C.G. Jung: “The ‘squaring of the circle’ … could even be called the archetype of wholeness.”

Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. “The ‘squaring of the circle’ is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of…