They were the only main characters and witnesses of this intimate journey to the depths of the collective unconscious.

The personal unconscious was the accumulation of experiences from a person's lifetime that could not be consciously recalled (Dewey, 2007).

So they're mapping the social scaling onto the geometric scaling it's a conscious pattern. It is not unconscious like a termite mound fractal.

The neuronal circuits involved in reflexes are a typical example relatively simple, fast, automatic actions that occur at a subconscious level.

Now we are discovering a more accurate vision of the unconscious, of who we are deep inside, and it's going to have a wonderful and profound and humanizing effect on our culture.

Although the unconscious cannot be studied by using direct approaches, it is, according to Jung at least, a useful hypothesis.

A system of cognitive processes, largely non conscious cognitive processes, that help them change their views of the world, so that they can feel better about the worlds in which they find themselves.

His postulated unconscious was quite different from the model that was proposed by Freud, despite the great influence that the founder of psychoanalysis had on Jung.

It is in fact the opposite of psycho history in that it claims that the unconscious and the individual psyche are both structural effects of different social forces, i.e., civilization.

And when we do these kind of things, when 300 million people do unconscious behaviors, then it can add up to a catastrophic consequence that nobody wants, and no one intended.

Well, in April 1999 was the Columbine shooting, and since then, that fear has been remembered by the media and echoes through the group mind gradually through the year.

It drives people from the smart part of the brain that dark, deep well of the subconscious, where instincts and experience, and all the other factors of creativity and good judgment are it drives us to the thin veneer of conscious logic.

NEW YORK Do nations have psychological processes even Freudian processes, such as collective egos that can be injured, and repressed guilt feelings that can well up from the collective unconscious just as individuals do? I believe that they do.

I also believe that just as an individual s dreams and slips of the tongue reveal his or her repressed knowledge, so a culture s dreamwork its films, pop music, visual arts, and even in the resonant jokes, cartoons and advertising images reveal the signs of this collective unconscious.