Who said that there is a collective unconscious shared by all human beings containing universal memories symbols and images that are the legacy of human history?

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Thoreau, Jung, and the Collective Unconscious

The Thoreau Society Bulletin

No. 265 (Winter 2009)

, pp. 4-7 (4 pages)

Published By: The Thoreau Society, Inc.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23402909

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Sent free to all members, the Thoreau Society Bulletin is a quarterly publication containing Society news, additions to the Thoreau Bibliography, and short articles about Thoreau and related topics.  The Thoreau Society Bulletin is edited by James Finley. 

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Who first described the collective unconscious?

collective unconscious, term introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung to represent a form of the unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware) common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain.

What is Jung's theory of the collective unconscious?

Carl Jung's theory is the collective unconscious. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences. We use this collective consciousness to give meaning to the world.

Who Discovered collective consciousness?

The term was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his The Division of Labour in Society in 1893. The French word conscience generally means "conscience", "consciousness", "awareness", or "perception".

What was Carl Jung's theory?

Jung (1947) believes symbols from different cultures are often very similar because they have emerged from archetypes shared by the whole human race which are part of our collective unconscious. For Jung, our primitive past becomes the basis of the human psyche, directing and influencing present behavior.