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“He noticed that the images and structures of this collective unconscious manifest themselves through what he called “archetypes,” and he regarded them as somehow similar to Bastian's Elementargedanken or Burckhardt's”
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chelster Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It (1988), where it is defined as "elementary thoughts of humankind," such as fairy tales and folk wisdom; anything that deals with the primordial themes of life and the collective unconscious. Oct 11, 2011