The Question

The Question

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Collective Unconscious

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The collective unconscious was a representation of what Jung called the psychic life of our ancestors.

He saw the collective unconscious as flowing from wherever and whenever the beginning was, surrounding and informing us in our current existence, but also continually renewing and ready for those not yet born.

To illustrate this new dimension, Jung modified the Freudian iceberg metaphor to include the presence of the collective unconscious.

Is Jung’s iceberg an unintended metaphor for the question of synchronicity itself? Presenter Frederick Tamagi leaves us with some questions to ponder.

Questions

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Carl Jung grappled with these two questions on his way to establishing his theory of synchronicity:

  • Where and how do archetypes exist in space and time?
  • How do archetypes enter our unconscious as “companions” to our normal human instincts and actual memories?

His answers are something for us to grapple with.

Conscious and Unconscious

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Freud’s theory of the human psyche and the psychoanalytic method are rooted in his concepts of repression in our unconscious mind, and expression in our conscious mind.

His model of the interaction between the conscious and the unconscious was based on the notion that much of our conscious behavior is driven by repressed memories and ideas emanating from the deep well of our unconscious.

In this video, presenter Frederick Tamagi explores what ultimately created a wedge between prolific collaborators, Jung and Freud.