Jamal Awil

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Culture can impose a shared unconscious. [causal]

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, loc. 668