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    of those causes. Moreover, guilt can be represented by common consciousness of a big group of people. In other words when these minds, which experience guilt come together, they create a feeling of collective guilt. The director of Caché, Michael Haneke implies throughout his film that this collective guilt is the result of individual guilt. In Michael Haneke’s Caché, the director has portrayed guilt in many ethnic bases for instance in family, nationality and media. Family is the origin of any

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    complete puzzlement over the details of his logic and conclusions. As far as my essay goes, I will attempt to put these thoughts in a neat, coherent order like the one mentioned above. For me, coming from a background in sociology, the concept of collective consciousness seems natural. If society is composed of various social institutions that were shaped, are shaped, and will be shaped by the peoples participating in them, it only makes sense that this idea of shared consciousness would explain the

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    distinctive, in everything that makes us an individual. The solidarity that derives from similarities is at its maximum when the collective consciousness completely envelops our total consciousness . . . but, at that moment, our individuality is nil. 1 He describes the relationship between individuality and community as a zero-sum. Durkheim argues that we can become more collective only insofar as we sacrifice our individuality and vice-versa. And if we agree that the relationship between individuality

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    Humanity has an unashamedly nature to be curious about life and all things it touches. We long to break each idea down to the smallest part and then scale back and see how it all fits together. It is innate to us from our 1st breath. “Mathematics manifests the freedom of the human ‘image-making’ relation to the world, which is an indicator of the ‘specific difference’ in human nature among the animal kingdom.” We crave this freedom, this knowledge. And for that reason, it is at the heart of storytelling

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    Jung, C. G. (1972). Two essays on analytical psychology Jung’s Two Essays on Analytical Psychology includes the works The Unconscious in the Normal and Pathological Mind and The Relation of the Ego to the Unconscious, which are 1928 revisions of previously written papers. Jung, who was Freud’s well-known disciple from 1909 to 1914, held ideas different from Freud’s and Adler’s that eventually led to personal differences between them, particularly with Freud; their followers have continued these

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    Suttree while he is in prison, a place where he has major conflicts with his inner self. By the end of his journey, Suttree is more unified and has found inner peace. Carl Jung is an analytical psychologist who has many theories based on the human unconscious. Jung’s premier psychological theory of archetypes where every person falls into different archetypes help to identify Suttree. Suttree falls into three different archetypes: the seeker archetype, the innocent archetype, and by the end of the novel

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    The accuracy of Carl Jung’s theory on the Unconscious Carl Jung was initially Sigmund Freud’s student. However, Jung did not believe in Freud’s assertions about past negatives being the only things that affected the unconscious realm of the human thought process. One of the main reasons why Jung’s interpretation of the human collective unconscious is more practical and constructive than that of Freud’s psychoanalysis is because Jung’s interpretation

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    Personalit Overview

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    According to Boeree, (2007), the unconscious mind would be made referenced to all the things that are not easily available to awareness and other things such as our drives or instincts. Additionally the unconscious mind includes the things that are put there that we block out voluntarily or involuntarily as in any case resulting from a traumatic event or episode. Five

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    the “sexual basis of neurosis”. Jung believed that there is a collective unconscious that is connected to everyone. God is included in this collective unconscious. His theory included what he called archetypes; pathways of energy (not things) that are shared in the collective. four main archetypes are: The Self, The Shadow, The Anima/Animus, and the Persona. The Self is the combination of the conscious, and the individual’s unconscious. the self is usually represented by a square or a circle. The

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    4: What is the unconscious and what is its relevance in understanding religious belief or religious experience? Answer with reference to either Jung or Freud, or to both Jung and Freud. It is widely assumed that in the field of psychoanalytic theory there are only two major influential characters when discussing the effect and importance of religion on the unconscious, these characters being Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. With marked similarities in definitions of the unconscious yet obvious argument

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