semi-pathological complexes, nor passing thoughts. True, the unconscious possess the centuries-old wisdom and experience of past generations, but we believe that the collective archetypes, nucleus-containing complexes, childhood memories and thoughts interspersed with feelings, can’t serve the determining factor as to the structure of human psyche or the contents of this structure. Not only this would make sculpting” a personality impossible, but create a problem in just singling a unique individual out of the dull crowd of human specimen, i.e. to make a clear distinction between people. Another thing would be to see the correlation between hereditary genetic perceptional and behavioral patterns and the ones inherited due to cultural and historic memory. In their attempt to clarify this problem psychologists might expect to be assisted by experts in such fields as: anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, ethology and history.
“Thus the collective unconscious as the focus of Jung’s works is where the archetypes are stored. According to Jung these archetypes sort of sum up the life of a species, so the collective unconscious being an integral part of any person’s psyche, is hereditary and serves as a foundation for growing an individual psyche. We totally agree with Jung’s theory that the basis of psyche is located in its unconscious sphere and don’t dispute the fact that human mind during the evolution accumulated some specific reactions common to everybody and established as instincts. But we feel that the cornerstone of human psyche is not the collective unconscious, but individual archetypical patterns. To us they are contained in the personal unconscious, if to use the Jungian terminology, and as logic has it, the collective unconscious can
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