Demonstrate Collective Unconsciousness On The View Of Historical Materialism

As a special social phenomenon of psychology, collective unconsciousness is an objective being. Collective unconsciousness acts on the society by affecting the individual or collective behavior. And its features lie in the objectivity, universality as well as inevitability that affect the society. Scholars have explained the phenomenon from such perspective as psychology, psychoanalysis, demotics and social psychology. Integrated collective unconsciousness, including interior psychological framework and exterior behavior which were analysed from the angle of historical materialism, is harmonious combination of social psychological structure of unconsciousness and unconscious social action. Collective unconsciousness and consciousness, individual unconsciousness , and social unconsciousness, these concepts share common points and differences as well. There are complicated reasons of interior and exterior for the shaping of collective unconsciousness that produce positive and negative social function through acting with social circumstance.The subject originated from the real word is the result of observing and thinking about the collective unconsciousness affairs. Based on the correlative theory of sociology and social psychology, the thesis intends to make further study on collective unconsciousness from the angle of historical materialism, to illustrate its characteristics, representation, principles and social function. It is of great importance to deepen and widen the scopes of historical materialism theoretically and practically.