The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically.

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon redefines the collective unconscious as a social product rather than inherited cerebral matter.
• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s psychoanalytic framing: colonial subjects inherit the white man’s archetype of the Negro through social contact, not genes. — connects to: The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century; Colonized subjects’ dream imagery is literal social fact, not Oedipal symbol. (+7 more)

Related

• Human brains develop differently across cultural contexts, unlike chemical laws. (similarity 0.87)
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited (similarity 0.86)
• Gender is a social power structure rather than a genetic trait. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized subjects’ dream imagery is literal social fact, not Oedipal symbol. (similarity 0.83)
• A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century (similarity 0.81)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity #corroborates (0.55) — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54