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Jiang uses Carl Jung's phrase to describe the subconscious level at which the Divine Comedy keeps working inside a culture.
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collective unconscious
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Jung's term for the universe in Jiang's comparative mapping; the transcript renders it as 'Eclectic Unconscious.'
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A universal underlying consciousness, linked to Jung and equated by Jiang with God for the purposes of this hypothesis.
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Jung's store of society's memories and experiences, embedded in food, speech, movies, books, and social life.
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Jiang says subtlety and paradox give the poem its power because the mind keeps working on what it has not fully discovered for decades.
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Jiang treats Hegel's Geist, Jung's collective unconscious, Plato's forms and ideals, and Christian heaven as different names for the same universe.
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He equates God with an underlying consciousness of the universe, using Hegel's Geist and Jung's collective unconscious as analogies for a force that can be communicated with through faith.
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Jiang speculates that Orthodox mystics' connection to the collective unconscious could explain Putin's ability to influence battlefield outcomes and manipulate Americans into self-defeating policies.
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Jung systematizes Freud by distinguishing ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious, animus/anima, persona, shadow, and self.
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Jiang treats Hegel's Geist and Jung's collective unconscious as overlapping ways to explain how ideas arise and circulate beyond a narrow materialist framework.
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"And then what would you do? You memorized it, do you understand? Okay? So, remember how... before we said that Divine Comedy is meant..."
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"...And this is what Carl Jung would refer to as the collective unconscious, okay?"
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"...Okay? All right? Carl Jung, the word he uses is Eclectic Unconscious. Eclectic Unconscious. Plato will use the realm of the forms and ideals...."
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"...guys um and you know call young would call this the collective unconscious and and i think it's a very compelling theory um i..."
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"...universe. Hegel calls this the Geist. Carl Jung calls this the Collective Unconscious. Because we have thoughts, right? Well, the question then is, where..."
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"...denies the existence of God. It denies the existence of this Collective Unconscious because of its embrace of materialism. And as a result, it's..."
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"...right, so everyone sort of knew that Freud's theory of the unconscious, is problematic, and he had a very famous student, his best student,..."
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"...personal, as well as the collective. Sorry, it's not subconscious, it's unconscious, okay? Unconscious. So the personal and conscious are just our memories, our..."
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"There's a duality to us. So, when we meet people, the ego projects a persona, okay? The persona is just basically our best self..."
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"...said what poetry does is that it embeds itself into the collective unconscious and the language and the beauty shapes the way you see..."
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