Collective unconscious

Collective unconscious By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Collective unconscious

·       Even we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix to our immediate consciousness, it is not, as we all believe to be the only empirical psyche, there is the inherited collective unconscious that does not develop individually and become conscious secondarily and give definite form to certain psychic contents. This pre-existent form accounts for the difference in attitude of two infants individuals those are raised together in a controlled environment because they demonstrate natural fascination to archetypal symbols embedded in their subconscious.

Education is the instrument of homogenization; it imparts collective judgment and consensual value so that children having internalized value and norm demonstrate through their attitude the required behavior. The best example is USA; people of various regional and ideological origins share the same aspirations and are inspired by the ‘same American dream’. These homogenization effects of education can be countered by tapping the concept of the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious transpires through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilization, and if civilizations are antithetical to each other so symbol and mythological (they are slightly similar); therefore, there is a great way in the concept of the collective unconscious to counter the homogenization effects of education. This concept can work in countries, such as chine; people of the same blood and language spread over the vast plains are inevitably  divided by great geography and due to this geographical variation similar symbols and mythological figures are slightly different and that offers though a limited scope for manipulating personal unconscious to create schism in culturally homogenized country.