Meaning of collective unconscious | Babel Free

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The common experiences, thoughts and opinions of a large group of people taken as a whole.

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“It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.”

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