Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious Mind

Carl Jung known for his contribution in a scientific study of religion is the collective unconscious. That is, about the long-established symbolic and mythical images that return in an assortment of cultures and historical periods.(p66) Collective unconsciousness refers to, materials and “things that are physically real prior to their personal appropriation.“(p66) Jung in the archetypes finds huge importance for religious symbolism, myth and physic healing. Also according to Jung, there are three layers to the conscious mind which are the personal unconscious, the unconscious mind, and the collective unconscious mind. The personal mind is composed of all things that are forgotten or blacked out by the “conscious mind that is affiliated with the person's own history.” (p66) The highest level of “unconscious belongs to the collective unconscious.”(P66) …show more content…
Jung writes that it the contrary and inherited nature of the human mind is to mold an image of the mythological motifs. Representations that alter a great deal without losing their design. For instance, like the bird's migrate to the south, or the impulse of nest making that they do. Primordial images in his studies cannot be a tag to any one race, religion or any certain time. That does not have a known root but they can recreate, repeat even when conveyance through passages that must be dismissed. The Divine Child, Mother Earth, the number four are just some of the archetypes studied by Jung.