[MD] Collective unconscious

[Ron Kulp]

"The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's
unconscious which is common to all human beings. It contains archetypes,
which are forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all
cultures. They are said to exist prior to experience, and are in this
sense instinctual. Critics have argued that this is an ethnocentrist
view, which universalized Jung's European-styled archetypes into human
beings' archetypes.

Less mystical proponents of the Jungian model hold that the collective
unconscious can be adequately explained as arising in each individual
from shared instinct, common experience, and shared culture. The natural
process of generalization in the human mind combines these common traits
and experiences into a mostly identical substratum of the
unconscious".-wiki