Question

Can somebody explain this?: The Collective Unconscious

Earlier in this lesson, you learned about the idea of a collective unconscious set forth by psychoanalytic "dissident," Carl Jung. This concept is not only important to the field of psychology, but it is one that is widely used by various disciplines in the Humanities.

For this assignment you will create a brief PowerPoint presentation that illustrates the collective unconscious of your particular culture.

Answer 1

* What sort of symbols and archetypes emerge from your research?
* What sort of values and/or meanings do these symbols represent?
* How does this collective unconscious influence individual behavior?


Basically I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do

Answer 2

I did not attend the lesson, but I did read about it before. The human psyche can be divided into consciousness, and the unconscious/subconscious. In a sense, the consciousness is physical and tangible. The unconscious is artistic and like a dream, and from which archetypes and symbols may emerge as a visualized image, a feeling, or a sound. These are fundamental building blocks that shape our psyche. There are common archetypes as well a personal ones, as the expression may be different, and thus shaping unique personalities. So archetypal expression may also be different in different cultures, however there are also similarities, like Egyptian and Mexican pyramids, are considered to be cross cultural. When this happens, we can identify a collective unconscious, where archetypes and the unconscious are connected outside time and space.