contain just instinctive programs along with some cultural experience which should belong to a human as a species for his personal needs, understanding, etc.
No doubt archetypes form the basis for human psyche, and if we perceive them as some unconsciously reproduced stereotyped patterns presented as myths, fairy tales, hallucinations and works of art (which is contrary to general opinion), there would be nothing unusual or mysterious about it. Though as Jung puts it: “…while interpreting the myths anything but the soul was appealed to…” [1; 100]. With such an approach in mind it is clear that human psyche is not “tabula rasa” (clean board) on which anything can be written down just by anyone.. ” In trying to identify the psyche and the consciousness one can be easily driven into the false idea that a person enters this world with empty psyche and later in life his psychic will contain nothing but what has been attained with his personal experience” [1; 71].
Jung maintains that patterns of the collective unconscious are innate elements of the human mind, much the same as instincts; acquired at birth, they begin to manifest themselves in much the same way in all individuals.
This is defensible only in light of the author’s assertion that collective patterns are attributes of the human mind. The mind, however, should refer
not to the unconscious but rather to the conscious realm wherein personality is decidedly influenced by collective thought.
So what does the unconscious have to do with it? In Jung’s opinion “the inner motives arise from some deep source with no connection to the consciousness and not controlled by the latter”. [1; 76]. Due to the cultural revolution human mind made quite some
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