🔼: [[💜 Inner Work]], [[🏫 Jungian Psychology]] \#️⃣: > [!quote] > "The one thing we refuse to admit is that we are dependent upon "powers" that are beyond our control".[^1] The Collective Unconscious is a term coined by [[👤 Carl Jung]] which refers to the unconscious behaviours of humanity as a collective. This is different to [[👤 Sigmund Freud]]'s [[🧩 Personal Unconscious]], which refers to the unconscious formed solely from our individual experience. To put it simply, it's like the collective unconscious mind of humanity filled with the values, behaviours and belief systems that are embedded within society and then passed down through the generations. There's a connection to [[🧩 Intergenerational Trauma]] here, although this concept goes beyond the transmission of trauma between generations. Carl proposed that the collective unconscious contains inherited and universal themes that influence our behaviours, dreams, and emotions. The idea emerged for Carl while he was observing the similarities and parallels between the myths, religions and even dreams of people from different cultures, which later became what's now commonly known as his [[🧩 Archetypes]]. [^1]: [[📖 Man and His Symbols by Carl G Jung]]