Essays Tagged: "Collective Unconscious"

A summary of the Collective Unconscious

A Collection Of Ideas About the Collective UnconsciousThe collective unconscious can be termed a psychic inheritance. It is a knowle ... has to deal with certain symbols and their representation and interpretation. Sometimes part of the collective unconscious may surface and become recognizable. Love at first sight, déjà ... ecome recognizable. Love at first sight, déjà vu, and religion are all related to the collective unconscious. People cannot go directly into their minds and take a look at the collective ...

(3 pages) 114 0 4.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Describes various archetypal symbols in ancient cultures

e, even in places whose cultures had obviously never met. These symbols are archetypal; part of the collective unconscious we are all born with. It is for this reason that two prehistoric humans could ... water and from that land and life arises. The archetypes in water prove more than any other how the collective unconscious, including archetypes, are within every human being's mind from the day they ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Carl Jung.

y (Neft).In Jung's theory, the psyche is divided into three sections: ego, personal unconscious and collective unconscious. Ego is the conscious mind, which is in close relation to the personal uncons ... t present, such as memories. Finally, what makes Jung's theory unique from the rest, is his idea of collective unconscious (Boeree). This concept differs from personal unconscious in the sense that it ...

(5 pages) 263 0 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"What roles do myths of origin play within religion and society?"

ication of belief", explaining rites and justifying norms. For Jung, myth provides expressions of a collective unconscious. Barthes studied the process of mythification, Levi-Strauss' structuralists s ... itute for Moses, whom they killed. The murder of Abel by Cain is an account of this killing and the collective guilt that followed. Although most dismiss this theory as purely speculative, nobody can ...

(12 pages) 297 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Dreams and Dreaming in Beloved in terms of Carl Jung's Archetypes

also does his conception of dreams. Differentiating between two kinds of unconscious: personal and collective one, the extended studies concerning the collective unconscious in a special way, and the ... rote "the animus and the anima should function as a bridge, or a door, leading to the images of the collective unconscious, as the persona should be a sort of bridge into the world."(Gary R. Sattler). ...

(16 pages) 107 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Jackson Pollock's influence on modern art

ation to the abstract expressionist automatic method of painting which developed metaphors for the 'collective unconscious'.Pollock's painting Cathedral 1947, is one of his first drip paintings. Such ... constant reading of iconography in any. Pollock did believe in, and tried to create out of his own collective unconscious by using automatism and spontaneity without the aid of representational symbo ...

(5 pages) 136 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Love and the Collective Unconscious - In reference to "A Christmas Carol," "White Fang," and "Great Expectations."

Love and the Collective UnconsciousIn Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, he states, "The salvation of man ... nge of behaviour in the following novels will verify that the desire to and for love is part of the collective unconscious: Ebenezer Scrooge from Dickens' A Christmas Carol; Pip from Dickens' Great Ex ... t Expectations, and White Fang from London's White Fang. To adequately fulfill the concept of one's collective unconscious, one must be familiar with it and understand how it relates to all humans.Acc ...

(8 pages) 63 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Dreams and Myths

are concerned in your life at that particular time.There is another type of dreams that is called "collective unconscious" or universal dreams. These types of dreams are not private to you and many p ... words, although our dreams reflect our own personal being and issues, or myths, some of them, like collective unconscious dreams, are universal and it is shared by every body with slight change, depe ...

(6 pages) 43 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Carl Jung - A Brillant mind

y (Neft).In Jung's theory, the psyche is divided into three sections: ego, personal unconscious and collective unconscious. Ego is the conscious mind, which is in close relation to the personal uncons ... t present, such as memories. Finally, what makes Jung's theory unique from the rest, is his idea of collective unconscious (Boeree). This concept differs from personal unconscious in the sense that it ...

(16 pages) 118 0 3.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Carl Jung

The collective unconscious is an important concept in the psychology of Carl Jung. In general, Jung stat ... mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. Jung distinguished the personal from the collective unconscious; which later he considered to be the seat of "archetypes", universal symbols ...

(1 pages) 60 0 3.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Using Jung's notion of archetypes and/or Joseph Campbell's notion of a mystic journey analyze and compare two of the following films: "Batman Returns" and "Thelma and Louise"

In particular was that of the archetype- the intuition of our persona, and its relationship to the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious can be defined by two elements- instincts and arc ... of Sci-Fi and fantasy archetypes, Praeger, Westport. 109-110Jung, Carl G, “Archetypes and the collective unconscious” in The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: The Collected Works, ...

(10 pages) 33 0 3.3 May/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"The Lagoon"

roughout the history of civilization, one cannot help but realize the possible existence of a human collective unconscious as proposed by Carl Jung. The human psyche has created an ethereal realm rese ...

(3 pages) 3052 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An analysis of Jung

esearch the interesting images he discovered in his work. Jung eventually conceived the notion of a collective unconscious, a layer beyond the personal unconscious, introduced the concept of archetype ... trong presence of Intuition. This is a vague term, which can, to an extent, give the essence of the collective unconscious. Every human being experiences an inexplicable gut instinct, those individual ...

(3 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Psych Paper

onality of an individual. It is composed mainly of the Consciousness, Personal Unconscious, and the Collective Unconscious. Each of these parts works not only individually but together also. The Psych ... the concept of doing something unconsciously comes from.The third part of the Psyche is called the Collective Unconscious. Jung came up with the idea that that there is a part of the mind that was fo ...

(11 pages) 82 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Lily's fulfillment of the "Heroic Journey" in Secret life of the Bees

st for self, ultimately Lily's main mission throughout the book, through exploration of the Jungian collective unconscious of her mother, she consequently finds the answers she is looking for.In the s ... was safe with her father. While these significant women may not actually have been her mother, they collectively represent the mother figure archetype, through providing comfort, direction, and guidan ...

(15 pages) 15 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Four Major Approaches to Clinical Psychology

e Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. For instance, Carl Jung concentrated on spiritual influences and the collective unconscious, which both offer ties to philosophical origins. Another correlation of philo ...

(7 pages) 130 1 3.7 Feb/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

essay writing

at the symbols influence the people and the society. Archetypal symbol and images came from human's collective unconsciousness which means that there would be some mystery behind it. In this research, ... al elevation. (Guerin. et al. 2005: 189).In conclusion Archetypal symbols are the images in human's collective unconscious. This collective unconscious is known as archetypal images. It means that sam ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education