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The Vindication of the term 'WOKE' and its UNJUST use as a Pejorative in Condemning the Collective Unconscious

Many epithets are let loose in our day with full vigor and strength, and many have in their foolishness refused to account for how such manifestations of group idealogy are not merely the schizophrenic outpouring of a ditzy mob, but are the throngs of individuals who speak in the language of the collective unconcsious.  This is clear to any man, woman, or child who is acquainted with such - but to those who haughtily declare themselves above such considerations and reproach there stands a clear condemnation of that which they refuse, namely the manifestation of the opposition of the Unseen world.  A perfect example is found in consideration of those who often times are known for exclaiming that the west is in support of Rape Culture - most who heed this term look at it as a mere caucophony of hatred for the terrors of such cruel physical acts which are often only what is meant by such who speak such, but it also seems to be consistent with the general hatred and scorn for all individuals who value their own souls and who value the souls of others with whom they speak.  It does seem consistent with the notion that the woke mob when contradicting certain societal functions lets loose with such vernacular that this would be a just judgment of the collective unconscious against a society that abhors the old ways and denounces soul and spirit with every opportunity it can muster, but it should be noted that the Collective Unconscious is like the Sea - it is what drives societies into the ground, and it is also what birthes them anew.  Such can be seen in its full terror and scope when considering the film Interstellar:



It is important to note that most who speak underneath the influence of the collective unconscious are themselves not fully conscious and are therefore, as Carl Jung would put it, possessed by a mythologems that issue forth from the collective unconscious, or in Christian terminology, are underneath the power of the Devil, the 'Evil One', or a number of other Spirits/Demons.  This happens in many different species of temperament and form, but is nonetheless a key ingredient in the many societal contradictions which the masses employ without, in many cases, recognizing what they are doing.  Those who are not familiar with such theorems and ideas can check out the following article which describes these findings of Jung in greater detail:

The term "collective unconscious" first appeared in Jung's 1916 essay, "The Structure of the Unconscious".[4] This essay distinguishes between the "personal", Freudian unconscious, filled with sexual fantasies and repressed images, and the "collective" unconscious encompassing the soul of humanity at large.[5]

In "The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology" (November 1929), Jung wrote:

And the essential thing, psychologically, is that in dreams, fantasies, and other exceptional states of mind the most far-fetched mythological motifs and symbols can appear autochthonously at any time, often, apparently, as the result of particular influences, traditions, and excitations working on the individual, but more often without any sign of them. These "primordial images" or "archetypes," as I have called them, belong to the basic stock of the unconscious psyche and cannot be explained as personal acquisitions. Together they make up that psychic stratum which has been called the collective unconscious.
The existence of the collective unconscious means that individual consciousness is anything but a tabula rasa and is not immune to predetermining influences. On the contrary, it is in the highest degree influenced by inherited presuppositions, quite apart from the unavoidable influences exerted upon it by the environment. The collective unconscious comprises in itself the psychic life of our ancestors right back to the earliest beginnings. It is the matrix of all conscious psychic occurrences, and hence it exerts an influence that compromises the freedom of consciousness in the highest degree, since it is continually striving to lead all conscious processes back into the old paths.[6]

On October 19, 1936, Jung delivered a lecture "The Concept of the Collective Unconscious" to the Abernethian Society at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.[7] He said:

My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.[8]

Jung linked the collective unconscious to "what Freud called 'archaic remnants' – mental forms whose presence cannot be explained by anything in the individual's own life and which seem to be aboriginal, innate, and inherited shapes of the human mind".[9] He credited Freud for developing his "primal horde" theory in Totem and Taboo and continued further with the idea of an archaic ancestor maintaining its influence in the minds of present-day humans. Every human being, he wrote, "however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche."[10]

As modern humans go through their process of individuation, moving out of the collective unconscious into mature selves, they establish a persona—which can be understood simply as that small portion of the collective psyche which they embody, perform, and identify with.[11]

The collective unconscious exerts overwhelming influence on the minds of individuals. These effects of course vary widely, however, since they involve virtually every emotion and situation. At times, the collective unconscious can terrify, but it can also heal.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious


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