Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)

The structural elements of the collective unconscious are named by Jung “archetypes” or “primordial images.” They are the pictorial forms of the instincts, for the unconscious reveals itself to the conscious mind in images which, as in dreams and fantasies, initiate the process of conscious reaction and assimilation.

If we accept Jung’s model of the collective unconscious, we are naturally and irrevocably connected to each other, to all of creation, in a way that transcends time and space. In its timeless nature, the collective unconscious is a remembrance of things past as they anticipate the future.

Basically, there are different sources of movement that have been described as the personal unconscious (personal story); the collective unconscious (transpersonal and cross-cultural); or the superconscious (connected to energies beyond the self).

The collective unconscious is the great sea of information that contains the collected patterns of everything that has ever occurred in time and space. It contains archetypical forces and original patterns emanating from the beginning of time onwards.

La deuxième grande découverte de Jung concernant la psyché, et sans doute celle qui contribuera le plus à sa renommée, est qu’il existe chez tout individu un inconscient aux contenus impersonnels, c’est-à-dire collectifs. Si le conscient et l’inconscient personnel se construisent au fil d’une vie, l’inconscient collectif, lui, est hérité. Nous ne n