Collective Psyche Quotes

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.