Life is a journey on water...
The scenery and sunlight of the conscious mind above.
A timeless and weightlessness world of symbols and shadows beneath.
The scenery and sunlight of the conscious mind above.
A timeless and weightlessness world of symbols and shadows beneath.
Jung proposed the existence of a second, far deeper form of the unconscious. This was the collective unconscious, where the archetypes themselves resided, represented in mythology by a lake or other body of water...
The “personal” unconscious is a reservoir of experience unique to each individual, while the collective unconscious collects and organizes those personal experiences in a similar way with each member of the species.
In his book, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (p. 43), Jung says, “My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature… there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
