The species has had millions of years of experience with darkness, power, death, mothers, fathers, and so forth. Jung could not believe that this vast reservoir of experience was unrepresented in experience. He thus believed that experiences from the race reside in each of us. He referred to these as

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Jung introduced the concept of archetypes, which he believed were universal, archaic symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the external world.

The Species Has Had Millions of Years of Experience with Darkness