[MD] Collective unconscious

[Micah]

Ron,

How can we be conscious of something we are unconscious of? 

Micah





<"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