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Book: Archetypes in Religion and Beyond

Chapter: e. The Baggage of the 'Collective Unconscious'

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43658

Blurb:

‘Unconscious’ in Jung’s account of archetypes is an unsatisfactory term because it entrenches a dichotomy (against the ‘conscious’) for a quality we experience incrementally, and ‘collective’ also unnecessarily dichotomizes ‘personal’ experience from genetically shared experience. Diachronic schematic function fulfils the same need to define archetypes, without Jung’s speculative assumptions.

Chapter Contributors

  • Robert Ellis (robert@middlewaysociety.org - rmellis) 'Middle Way Society'