War dreams

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Jung's meaning of the term appears to have been: a type of unconscious "common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain." He coined the term, collective unconscious, and this definition for it. It's based on his research on myths and our 'inherited' cultural norms. I don't think it's meant to develop control, but instead psychoanalysis of the unconscious. It a hermeneutic, not statecraft.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So basically primal instincts? That would make sense, but I doubt it relates to prophecy.

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Yes - I think that's a good description of what Jung, Freud and other Austrian, Swiss, and German intellectials were studying in the mid-to-late 19th century. Many of these scholars were at least partially Hegelian in their approaches, and were thus believing that one's understanding of the unconscious could be informative of potential predictions, or natural reactions of the mind to balance itself. For them it waas a science of the mind, so to speak.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right. But that would be more relevant to personal meanings, not prophetic visions. But even the personal meanings are hard to tell, because dreams are so random.