The Glossary

The Collective Unconscious

A deeper layer shared by all people, whose archetypes surface again and again in myth, religion, and dream, in every age.

From C. G. Jung.

In Symbols of the Psyche

  • The Great Mother: The mother behind every mother, who gives life and takes it back.
  • The Dead: The unanswered questions of those who came before.
  • The Sea: The collective unconscious, unfathomed.
  • The Crystal: The form that is there before the substance fills it.
  • The House: The structure of the psyche, lived in.

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