Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1113 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jung's Collective Unconscious
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The idea
Jung proposed a collective unconscious containing archetypes — universal symbolic patterns shared across humanity.
In practice
Recurring figures such as the hero and the shadow appear across unrelated mythologies.
Where people slip
The collective unconscious is not testable in its stated form. Its influence has been cultural rather than empirical.
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