Having studied myths, symbols, and religious material, Jung posited a collective unconscious, a deep layer of psychic experience common to humankind. This concept is unique to Jungian psychology. The repository of prototypical, instinctual human experience over millennia, the collective unconscious is a wellspring of inherent, universal patterns an

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Understanding what the unconscious is trying to communicate means learning its symbolic language. Without this understanding, the unconscious images that rise above the surface of our consciousness in dreams and fantasies will be lost on us, and we’ll miss what they have to teach us.