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Deep-dive essays, added over time.


Not All of It Is Yours: The Personal and Collective Unconscious and the Weight You Need to Set Down
(Series: From Insight to Excitement, Part 5) In the last post, we followed integration as far as the personal unconscious can take you: the shadow material that is specifically yours, shaped by what actually happened to you and to no one else in quite that way. We also named what waits underneath it. Once that personal layer is genuinely underway, there is another one below it, and it is not only yours. Jung called it the collective unconscious, and understanding the differen
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