# Collective Unconscious **Domain:** Psychology / Cultural Theory **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Contextual **Related:** [[Psychoanalysis]], [[Czech Surrealism]], [[Distributed Intelligence]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition The **collective unconscious** is Carl Jung's proposed layer of shared inherited psychic structures expressed through recurring images and archetypes. ## Corpus Context Within the Bauhaus router it names one historical interpretation of automatic and Surrealist production. It should remain distinct from statistical regularities learned from a shared cultural corpus. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Relationships - **Edge Annual Question source relationship:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] preserves the annual-question source corpus from which a proposition-specific quotation is connected to this entry. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "The universe consists primarily of dark matter. We can't see it, but it has an enormous gravitational force. The conscious mind—much like the visible aspect of the universe—is only a small fraction of the mental world. The dark matter of the mind, the unconscious, has the greatest psychic gravity. Disregard the dark matter of the universe and anomalies appear. Ignore the dark matter of the mind and our irrationality is inexplicable." > **— Joel Gold**, *2012, Edge Annual Question, “What Is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/The Unconscious Has the Greatest Psychic Gravity by Joel Gold|The Unconscious Has the Greatest Psychic Gravity by Joel Gold]]