Korniltsev, V. V. From Disorder to Collective Unconsciousness

Abstract: Sigmund Freud’s supposition about primitive people having high ambivalency is proved according to the traditions of the psychoanalytic concept. High degree of ambivalency correlates with the degree of social belonging to the culture of magic. Its conditions of existence tell about high ambivalency which, however, requires new, important for human evolution, qualities in the course of research. In history, the same dynamics of ambivalency are parallel to dynamics of religious and magic transformations in civilization. These relations can be explained from the point of view of Carl Jung’s theory of collective unconsciousness and a number of his concepts about the history of collective unconsciousness. However, the research results show that the concept of high ambivalency does not only answer the question about human descent but also plays an important role in the analysis of today’s major cultural cataclysms.

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