Collective Unconscious Quotes - Page 2

• Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

  Stanislav Grof

  Race, Culture, Maps

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• I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

  Bill Hicks

  Ego, Trying, World

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• Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

  Jodi Picoult

  Song, Heart, Eye

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• Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Moon, Impact, Space

  "Krakauer in Antarctica", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2003.

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• In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

  Alan Ball

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

  Carl Jung

  Struggle, Years, Problem

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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• For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

  Nick Bantock

  Want, Way, Action

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Dream, Memories, Revenge

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• America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rights, Class, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

  Tom Robbins

  Historical, Fiction, Facts

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• it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Jobs, Years, Shoes

  Cynthia Heimel (1994). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Justice, Goal

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• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Wild Imagination

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

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• The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

  Miranda Richardson

  Believe, Writing, Technique

  "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview With James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Collectives

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.

  Janet Fitch

  Wonder, Imagine, Checks

  Source: www.oprah.com

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