Human brains develop differently across cultural contexts, unlike chemical laws.

Evidence

Continuing to take stock of reality, endeavoring to ascertain the instant of symbolic crystallization, I very naturally found myself on the threshold of Jungian psychology. European civilization is characterized by the presence, at the heart of what Jung calls the collective unconscious, of an archetype: an expression of the bad instincts, of the darkness inherent in every ego, of the uncivilized savage, the Negro who slumbers in every white man. And Jung claims to have found in uncivilized peoples the same psychic structure that his diagram portrays. Personally, I think that Jung has deceived himself. Moreover, all the peoples that he has known–whether the Pueblo Indians of Arizona or the Negroes of Kenya in British East Africa–have had more or less traumatic contacts with the white man. I said earlier that in his Salavinizations52 the young Antillean is never black; and I have tried to show what this phenomenon corresponds to. Jung locates the collective unconscious in the inherited cerebral matter. But the collective unconscious, without our having to fall back on the genes, is purely and simply the sum of prejudices, myths, collective attitudes of a given group. It is taken for granted, to illustrate, that the Jews who have settled in Israel will produce in less than a hundred years a collective unconscious different from the ones that they had had before 1945 in the countries which they were forced to leave. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The collective unconscious is not dependent on cerebral heredity; it is the result of what I shall call the unreflected imposition of a culture. Hence there is no reason to be surprised when an Antillean exposed to waking-dream therapy relives the same fantasies as a European. It is because the Antillean partakes of the same collective unconscious as the European. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It is no different for mental differentiation, especially since this usually originates in the meeting of latent mental abilities with objectively preexisting mental products. The unmediated interaction of subjectivities or the purely inner energy of a human being rarely elicits all the mental distinctiveness that one possesses; rather, this seems to be associated with the extent of what has been called “objective mind,” that is, the traditions and the experiences of one’s group, set down in thousands of forms; the art and learning that are present in tangible structures; all the cultural materials that the historical group possesses as something super-subjective and yet available to everyone. The peculiarity of this generally accessible Mind that crystallizes itself in objective structures is that it provides both the material and the impetus for the development of a distinct personal mental type. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 654 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 654; The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (+1 more)

Related

• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited (similarity 0.87)
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. (similarity 0.87)
• Individuality is produced by entering culture, not given at birth (similarity 0.81)
• A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century (similarity 0.80)
• Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized subjects’ dream imagery is literal social fact, not Oedipal symbol. (similarity 0.79)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 654