Talk:Collective unconscious

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Critics have argued that this is an ethnocentrist view, which universalized Jung's archetypes into human beings' archetypes.

I'm not so sure ethnocentrist is the right word here. --DanielCD 15:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Note: I marked my first "minor copyedit" edit as a minor edit by accident. It is not a minor edit. --DanielCD 15:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps he means ecocentric? Pertaining to a "home-sphere" as apposed to a race?

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[edit] broken link

the finish my novel link is broken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.41.20.4 (talk) 06:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Collective Concious/Unconcious

I'm not sure references to collective conciousness, or hive minds, should be in this article. For one thing, it has nothing to do with commanlity of experience or shared cultures. In a hive mind, every individual acts as an independant synapse, allowing the hive to work as a gestalt. Secondly, there are so so SO many hive minds in fiction, from the Tyranids of Warhammer 40K to the Zergs of Spacecraft, that listing all of them would be an article unto itself. -- Raveled


I would suggest giving examples of collective unconscious in modernist literature, that was the beginning, the revolution so to say.

[edit] Collective Unconscious is NOT Universal Consciousness!

Collective Unconscious is NOT Universal Consciousness - the redirection from Universal Consciousness to Collective Unconscious should be removed.


[edit] Quick n Blind

The consciousness of the collective, is an infinite concept. There are collective consciousnesses being created at every second of existence. E.g. In scientology, there are the 8 dynamics of existence 1 = self, 2 = pro-creation (husband, wife, seed(s)) ;) 3 = group (family, workplace, neighborhood, temporary atonomous zones, etc.) 4 = human race (all humans on the planet), 5 = life forms (animal and plant life), 6 = Mest universe (matter, energy, space, and tiime) 7 = spiritual (souls/spirits/conscoiusnesses/angels/demons/gohsts etc.), 8 = Infinity (God, Holy tinity, Super consciouness etc.) And if you belive that there are aliens, then they probably go like in 4.5 or something. Anyway, there are collective consciounesses springing up consctantly in the on going time capsul we call the universe. There are some consciousnesses that have been around since the begining of time and are still around right now, and there are some that are born and are gone just as fast e.g. (that's a good idea, no wait this will work better...) And then split that up into the conscious which is what we are able to speak about, and then there's the sub conscious which is too abstract to speak about sometimes but at the same time it's like the qualities and interpretations of various stimuli physical, mental or spiritual......... The mind is a tool of creation. It can be used to create conciousnesses such as this website that is a virtual organic entity (or can be defined as such).... etc. So, i'm just flowing with thought here people, just wanted to get some conscoiusness out there. Peace, and Productivity. Go Humans!!

Oh and the point of my mentioning Scientology was to identify the various subjects that collective consciousnesses could be about.

Oh and I agree with Universal collective consciousness should not direct you here to unconsciousness. Actually my rant here should not even be here either, but I couldn't fing a Collective Consciousness page.

--DreHectik 06:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a place for essays. Once that is understood: Oh and I agree with Universal collective consciousness should not direct you here to unconsciousness. If you have a good reason to stop it from doing so, stop it from doing so. Actually my rant here should not even be here either, but I couldn't fing a Collective Consciousness page. There is a page on Collective consciousness. -- Hoary 08:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Couldn't the explanation be more indepth?

This explanation doesn't really explain what "Collective unconscious" is for the uninformed reader looking for a introduction to the subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BCRivers (talk • contribs) 00:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] schizophrenia and collective myths

I don't know if this helps but this article says a community's myths are decisive in the definition of a culture's delusions in schizophrenics... one wikipedia article said Jung learnt from work with schizophrenics... the delusions were guilt in Austria and persecution in Pakistan http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&ProduktNr=224276&Ausgabe=226529&ArtikelNr=29094 Notpayingthepsychiatrist (talk) 20:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Superconscious = Collective Unconscious?

I'm not sure this redirect is correct. I mostly encounter "Superconscious" in the context of New Age beliefs (such as the Law of attraction) referring to a higher universal mind. That doesn't appear to gel with "Collective Unconscious", though the article is so vague it's hard to be sure. --Irrevenant [ talk ] 06:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)