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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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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey the collective
- 00:07
unconscious flashman What is the collective unconscious The collective unconscious
- 00:16
is a concept that was articulated by carl young who
- 00:21
was a swiss psychologist psychoanalyst a student of freud's And
- 00:29
you know freud has this idea that we have all
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- 00:32
sorts of like repressed memories in us Cool than our
- 00:36
dreams are really meaning fall and they kind of animate
- 00:40
our conscious life in a way that we don't understand
- 00:44
Young articulates this idea that the unconscious is not discreet
- 00:49
within each individual person but that there's a wide kind
- 00:53
of unconsciousness that all of humanity participates in and draws
- 00:57
in So campbell uses that idea to help explain how
- 01:02
the same story keeps cropping up a gallon again Because
- 01:05
he says that this idea of the hero's journey is
- 01:08
part of the collective unconscious of humanity And so when
- 01:11
people sort of go to write stories they draw on
- 01:14
the same archetypes again and again What is the collective 00:01:23.934 --> [endTime] unconscious
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