Cat in a Grump
In 1916, Karl Jung wrote an essay, called The Structure of the Unconscious, in which he discussed his version of a collective unconscious. This collective unconscious wasn't a field, like a Higgs Field, it was inherited through the genes and was lodged in the mind, it was common to all people, it contained the building blocks of Jung's universal unconscious archetypes which contributed to the totality of a human mind, or what Jung called the Psyche. Jung's psyche and its outer world connection engages the idea of a constant interaction, interpreting and reinterpreting, a self regulation which attempts to produce a balance between the conscious, the unconscious mind and the Ego. The Ego is the raw experience of being in the world, or more gently, the Ego is your sense of self, the thing that says what about me. Also, and worth keeping in mind, the archetypes from the inherited unconscious self are sources of patterns for what Jung calls the Persona, the social mask we wear, the Shadow, our repressed side as well as the Anima and the Animus, or the female and the male side of our psyche. So there's a whole set of invisible things happening in our minds and when it comes to something like a field such as the Higgs Field, Jung sees an underlying layer, the Collective Unconscious, which doesn't encompass the universe, we inherit and share this layer with all other people, nowhere else. Life for us people, Jung argued, was a life long process of achieving a balanced integration of the personal and collective unconscious with that self centered jackass Jung called the Ego. This process of integration Jung called Individuation, a word that comes directly from the Jung's book 'Der Individuationsprozess.' Got to love German Language. With us people, especially in the Western World, the idea of a consciousness that encompasses the universe as well as us people, can sometimes produce psychic upset which can lead to delusional as well as unfortunate behaviors.
