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Essay / Nietzsche and John Locke's Tabula Rasa? - 737
Introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, Jung's idea of the collective unconscious is the most mystical, the most controversial, but perhaps the most important concept. Unlike Locke's idea of a blank slate, Jung asserts that the collective unconscious is the deepest part of the personality and is composed of common experiences of humans over the years. Jung calls each heritage an “archetype.” According to Jung, an archetype is a framework for perceptual and emotional experience. This framework predisposes people to perceive things in a certain way, to react emotionally in a certain way, and to act in a certain way (Hergenhahn, 1992). The word certain is used a lot in this passage of the text, and the term certain leaves no room for ambiguity. Therefore, I do not agree with the use of this term, because what is actually