Define collective unconscious dumb-form!.?

Question

Collective unconscious: the inherited part of the unconscious that especially in the psychoanalytic theory of C. G. Jung occurs in and is shared by all the members of a people or race.

again do not understand, please elaborate this word in simpler terms.

thanks!

Answer 1

Jung's "collective unconscious" has to do with his belief that some memories/thoughts/ideas/behaviors are actually GENETICALLY inherited (rather than learned or acquired during one's lifetime), and that this has been the case since time began.

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