Posted by Atticus on December 3, 2004, at 19:38:32
In reply to Re: Lou's response to Atticus- » Lou Pilder, posted by Larry Hoover on December 3, 2004, at 18:58:03
True, the notion of a "collective unconscious" is Jung's -- but he was drawing on Freud's notion of the individual "unconscious" and the role it supposedly plays in shaping our behavior. I believe this "unconscious" -- individual or collective -- to be purely a mythical creation, and that what is really going on is the chemical interplay of constantly morphing groups of neurons called "cell assemblies" in the hippocampus portion of the brain, which real hard scientific data strongly suggests controls memory and learning, and therefore affects behavior. If you're interested in pursuing this line of inquiry, see if you can track down the published papers of neuroscientists such as Gyorgy Buzsaki, Mark Gluck, and Catherine Myers for more detailed information (but admittedly a lot of these articles in scholarly journals such as Science can be pretty tough slogs). Atticus
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