Archetypes and the ‘Impoverished Genome’ Argument: Updates from Evolutionary Genetics

Throughout his career, Jung felt the psyche had ‘ancestral layers’ that contained elements of an individual's species history, and clinical experience has shown that this idea can be an aid to psychological healing and emotional well-being. Thus, some later thinkers have attempted to link such...

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Published in:	Journal of analytical psychology Vol. 65; no. 5; pp. 911 - 931
Main Author:	Goodwyn, Erik
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2020
Subjects:	analytical psychology Analytische Psychologie archetipo Archetyp archetype Archetypes archétype arquetipo Clinical experience collective unconscious Debates Encoding Evolution, Molecular evolutionary psychology Evolutionspsychologie genetica Genetics Genetik Genomes Genomics genética génétique Healing Humans inconscient collectif inconsciente colectivo inconscio collettivo Jungian Theory kollektives Unbewußtes neurociencias neuroscience neurosciences neuroscienze Neurowissenschaften psicologia analitica psicologia evolutiva psicología anlítica psicología evolutiva psychologie analytique psychologie de l’évolution Theorists Unconsciousness аналитическая психология архетип генетика коллективное бессознательное неврология эволюционная психология 分析心理学原型基因神经科学进化心理学集体无意识 archetype genetics analytical psychology evolutionary psychology neuroscience collective unconscious genetica genética 进化心理学 neurosciences psicologia evolutiva 原型 эволюционная психология inconscient collectif генетика 集体无意识 psicologia analitica Evolutionspsychologie коллективное бессознательное neurociencias psicología evolutiva inconsciente colectivo psychologie de l’évolution arquetipo psychologie analytique 基因 аналитическая психология Genetik неврология 神经科学 archétype Neurowissenschaften psicología anlítica Archetyp kollektives Unbewußtes archetipo génétique Analytische Psychologie архетип 分析心理学 inconscio collettivo neuroscienze
ISSN:	0021-8774, 1468-5922, 1468-5922
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Summary:	Throughout his career, Jung felt the psyche had ‘ancestral layers’ that contained elements of an individual's species history, and clinical experience has shown that this idea can be an aid to psychological healing and emotional well-being. Thus, some later thinkers have attempted to link such theoretical constructs to the genome, as Jung had little knowledge of genetics in his day. But in the early 2000s, genome studies suggested that the genome might contain too little content to be capable of encoding symbolic information. This opinion gave rise to an oft-repeated ‘impoverished genome’ argument, i.e. that the genome could not provide a significant contribution to the collective unconscious, prompting theorists to propose other sources for it, or to argue that it doesn't exist. Today, however, developments in evolutionary neurogenetics calls the impoverished genome argument into question for a number of independent reasons. These developments re-open the idea that the genome may be worth reconsidering as the biological substrate for the collective unconscious.
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ISSN:	0021-8774 1468-5922 1468-5922
DOI:	10.1111/1468-5922.12642