the.com/collective unconscious
the wifi password everyone's brain knew before anyone shared it.
means a theorized layer of the mind, shared across all humans, storing inherited symbols and instincts rather than personal memories.
from coined by carl jung in the 1910s-20s, breaking from freud's purely personal unconscious; jung noticed patients dreaming symbols from myths they'd never read, and concluded some psychic content must be inherited, not learned.
archetypesjung's term for its recurring characters: the mother, the shadow, the hero
not memoriesstores patterns and predispositions, not actual lived experiences
myth overlapwhy unrelated cultures independently invent flood myths, tricksters, dragons
freud disagreedhe thought jung's idea was mystical, not scientific