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Linking Freudian and Jungian psychology to elements of cultural studies, conceive a useful model that describes a triangular relationship between individuals, the media and some form of collective consciousness.
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Contents Introduction 2 1 The Unconscious 2 1.1 Freud 3 1.2 Jung 4 1.2.1 The personal unconscious 4 1.2.2 The collective unconscious and the Archetypes 4 2 Media Driven Consciousness 6 3 Global Consciousness ? 8 3.1 Global consciousness as a placebo? 9 4 Unfolding Perspective 11 5 Consequences 12 Bibliography 14 Introduction Remember The Borg, in the STAR TREK series? They were an assimilating species with a collective consciousness. They functioned as One entity, each part hearing the others, like a thousand voices speaking at once. All drones behaved in total servility to the collective, totally unaware of the fact that they were once individuals before they were assimilated. We believe to be individuals. Shall we one day to be assimilated? I think we already are. I suspect we belong to a larger whole, to which we all contribute and receive from, like the Borg. There is only One. For where lie the boundaries between two people on a level of consciousness? What,...
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