Parapsychology

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Thanks for the responsr guys. Im surprised that my psychology teacher who is also a psychiatrist and have his own counselling business believing in parapsychology.

Probably a Jungian. Old Carl Jung was pretty dippy;it was he who coined the term 'sychronicity' (meaningful coincidence). Two of his other ideas were 'the collective unconscious' and the 'racial archetype'. He also believed in poltergeists .He and Herr Doktor Freud did not get along.


Worth keeping in mind that psychiatric 'theories' of mind are not based on empirical evidence. That includes Freud's Ego,Id ,Super Ego,and his notion of the subconconscious so many blithely accept.


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Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung. It is proposed to be a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems, and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes
experience. Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious, in that the personal unconscious is a personal reservoir of experience unique to each individual, while the collective unconscious collects and organizes those personal experiences in a similar way with each member of a particular species.

Archetypes and collective representations
Jung considered that 'the shadow' and the anima/animus differ from the other archetypes in the fact that their content is more directly related to the individual's personal situation'[3], and less to the collective unconscious: by contrast, 'the collective unconscious is personified as a Wise Old Man'.[4]
Jung also made reference to contents of this category of the unconscious psyche as being similar to Levy-Bruhl's use of collective representations or "représentations collectives," Mythological "motifs," Hubert and Mauss's "categories of the imagination," and Adolf Bastian's "primordial thoughts."

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