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Join us for part five of the Hero's Journey: The Collective Unconscious. Otherwise known as every slumber party, ever. 

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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey the collective

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unconscious flashman What is the collective unconscious The collective unconscious

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is a concept that was articulated by carl young who

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was a swiss psychologist psychoanalyst a student of freud's And

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you know freud has this idea that we have all

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sorts of like repressed memories in us Cool than our

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dreams are really meaning fall and they kind of animate

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our conscious life in a way that we don't understand

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Young articulates this idea that the unconscious is not discreet

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within each individual person but that there's a wide kind

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of unconsciousness that all of humanity participates in and draws

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in So campbell uses that idea to help explain how

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the same story keeps cropping up a gallon again Because

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he says that this idea of the hero's journey is

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part of the collective unconscious of humanity And so when

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people sort of go to write stories they draw on

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the same archetypes again and again What is the collective 00:01:23.934 --> [endTime] unconscious

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