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 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:00 pm
"Jung's theory divides the psyche into three parts. The first is the ego,which Jung identifies with the conscious mind. Closely related is the personal unconscious, which includes anything which is not presently conscious, but can be. The personal unconscious is like most people's understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. But it does not include the instincts that Freud would have it include.
But then Jung adds the part of the psyche that makes his theory stand out from all others: the collective unconscious. You could call it your "psychic inheritance." It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviors, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences."
Source.
From what I've read about him and all he has become one of my favorites.
I was curious of your opinions and thoughts.
So what are your thoughts on his theory? Him?
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:08 am
So...the collective psyche would pretty much be an explanation for instinctive things (ie learning to speak without prior experience)? That's not really necessary though, is it? The alternate explanation, not the actual intuitive things. Also, it would have to presuppose the existence of a higher order being having access to every mind (an I idea I don't much fancy), because there would not really be any physical way to convey information from one person to another, and if you were to suppose that there was some...let's call it ether, which possessed all that information, it would either have to again be controlled by some external higher being or thing, or it would have to be self-directed (kinda like a soul) - and that's going into reincarnation, which is not really a new idea.
It is interesting though. I'd never accept it without massive amounts of evidence, however.
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