His work with schizophrenics took him into realms that Freud possibly feared, certainly resisted, and led to Jung's decisive formulation of the theory of a Collective Unconscious, a universal resource as opposed to Freud's more limited concept of a personal unconscious.
Bias is harder to notice than Descartes expected, being unconscious, near-universal and more readily revealed in the psychologist's lab than by the "natural light of reason".
Her work embraces Jungian theory and its positing of a rich human personal unconscious and a universal collective unconscious manifested in archetypes found in dreams, myths and religion.
But while Griffin may personify an overt form of prejudice, the kind that draws near universal scorn, it's the unconscious, sublimated or throwaway manifestation of racism that tends to receive most institutional focus.
This is because symbols are never flat; they are multi-dimensional, the universal language of the collective unconscious.
According to Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, or universal primordial images and ideas.
"For myself, I feel that it is a universal codex for humans to access the unconscious part of ourselves, and it comes in various forms: in our imagination, in our language, even our technology.
The theory generally applied and accepted by this composite of mental sciences, is that human action is the final external psychic product of a universal process that consists of a series of preceding internal, unconscious psychological events.
And in decades of performances given while under hypnosis, Mr. Mullican has consistently exposed the private realm of his unconscious to public scrutiny in the hope of tapping universal patterns of behavior.
However, there is one eye movement "tell" that's pretty universal: people who are lying often look toward the door, their unconscious escape route.
