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Collective Unconscious Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse
Collective Unconscious, Order, Confusion

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

Carl Jung
Art, Men, Collective Unconscious
"Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.

Carl Jung
Fall, Men, Collective Unconscious
"Jung on Christianity".

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
Collective Unconscious, Historical, Fiction

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

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

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

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, Collective Unconscious

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

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, Collective Unconscious, Class
Source: www.spiegel.de

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
Collective Unconscious, Wonder, Imagine
Source: www.oprah.com

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