What do these words mean? referring to literature?

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collective unconscious

resonance

frisson

Answer 1

The collective unconscious originates from Carl Jung, who believed there could be a shared mindset by people all over the world at any given moment. It can include morals, scientific thoughts, and religion. It's unconscious because we can't determine where the insight originated, and it's collective because more than one person at a time can come up with the same thought without even knowing each other. For example, Yeats alludes to the collective unconscious in his poem "The Second Coming," but he calls it Spiritus Mundi, suggesting that ideas transcend people and that poets and artists can be inspired by this pervasive influence. Yeats' poem suggests that people all over the world feel a sense of impending doom.

When an idea has resonance, it's an idea with profound, lasting significance. A text can contain resonance from another text or object in the world. For example, a yellow ribbon means much more to Americans than a decoration in a child's hair because the yellow ribbon has been associated with soldiers coming home from war. Again, in Yeats' "Second Coming," the image of the sphinx resonates with readers because everyone has heard of the great beast in the desert that toys with people's intelligence. When Yeats suggests that the sphinx is returning, it creates resonance of fear and doom in readers.

Frisson is a moment in a text or in daily life that creates a sudden impact, usually one of fear or horror. It's a moment when the readers shudder at the reality presented to them. An example would be the "iron gray hair" lying on the "indented" pillow of Emily Grierson's bed in Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily." Readers don't expect to learn such a horrifying aspect of the seemingly genteel Emily's life.

Answer 2

The collective unconscious is a Jungian term referring to knowledge that humans seem to possess as a species, but not to have learned individually. For example, most kids are frightened of snakes, but in the industrialized world they rarely encounter snakes. Where did they learn the fear? In literature you could use the collective unconscious to refer to archetypes of characters or situations. For example, almost every culture as a story about an unlikely hero who receives supernatural assistance, saves the day, dies, and is prophesied to return (think King Arthur).

In any kind of art resonance has to do with how the audience reacts. If the art resonates with the audience, it will inspire an emotional reaction.

That reaction can be called a frisson. A frisson of pleasure, of disgust, etc.

Answer 3

it truly is a call question -- my congratulations. I understand your meaning; yet i imagine what makes large literature large is that it keeps a philosophical outlook. the version between literature (actual Literature) as hostile to mere melodrama is that the latter merely tells a narrative, at the same time as the former has a level to make. It supplies thematic team spirit to the tale, characters and activities which go beyond the mere plot, and forces us to comprehend that those human beings and issues have an more advantageous significance, and as a effect, are symbolic representations of elementary human strivings. evaluate the novels of Dostoevsky, the performs of Shakespeare, the works of Camus, etc. those are all those who went previous tale-telling to provide us a glimpse of the human condition. They were, to coin a word, "Literary Philosophers;" and that is exactly why their works have endured. the basics of the human condition do no longer substitute -- and as a effect, those who provide us a philosophical understanding of human causes and motivations are certain immortality. desire this facilitates. Cheers.

Answer 4

you arent able to tell just by the words themselves ..... it depends on the context in which they are used in the literature ..... thats the only real way to find out what those words really mean

Answer 5

Collective unconscious
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Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology originally coined by Carl Jung. While Freud did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious particular to each human being.

Contents [hide]
1 Definition
2 Collective unconscious in Jung's works
3 Collective unconscious in Fiction
4 See also
5 Further reading
6 External links



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Definition
The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's unconscious which is common to all human beings. It contains archetypes, which are forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures. They are said to exist prior to experience, and are in this sense instinctual. Critics have argued that this is an ethnocentrist view, which universalized Jung's European-styled archetypes into human beings' archetypes.

Less mystical proponents of the Jungian model hold that the collective unconscious can be adequately explained as arising in each individual from shared instinct, common experience, and shared culture. The natural process of generalization in the human mind combines these common traits and experiences into a mostly identical substratum of the unconscious.

For example, the archetype of "the great mother" would be expected to be very nearly the same in all people, since all infants share inherent expectation of having an attentive caretaker (human instinct); every surviving infant must either have had a mother, or a surrogate (common experience); and nearly every child is indoctrinated with society's idea of what a mother should be (shared culture). The amalgam of all these effects could be the source of the shared figure, or archetype, which reportedly appears very nearly the same in most peoples' dreams.

Regardless of whether the individual's connection to the collective unconscious arises from mundane or mystical means, the term collective unconscious describes an important commonality that is observed to exist between different individuals' dreams. It was simply formulated by Jung as a model.

Timothy Leary's 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness includes the collective unconscious as being the 7th circuit, or the neurogenetic circuit of consciousness.

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Collective unconscious in Jung's works
In his earlier writings, Jung called this aspect of the psyche the collective unconscious. He later changed the term to objective psyche. The objective psyche may be considered objective for two reasons: it is common to everyone; and it has a better sense of the self's ideal than the ego or conscious self does. It thus directs the self, via archetypes, dreams, and intuition, and drives the person to make mistakes on purpose. In this way, it moves the psyche toward individuation, or self-actualization.

In the "Definitions" chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of "collective" Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Levy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think. Jung says this is what he describes as the collective unconscious.

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Collective unconscious in Fiction
On the television show Star Trek: Voyager, the crew encounters an alien race that places them all in a massive, shared dream. Character Seven of Nine describes this as a "collective unconscious".

In the Hitchhiker novel Life, the Universe and Everything, the game of Cricket is a "collective unconscious" memory of the Krikkit Wars.

In the Stephen King novel Cell, after an apparent terrorist attack wipes the minds of a majority of humanity, Collective Unconscious is used as the premise behind the basic instinct to kill, adapt and survive after the "Phoners" transition from humanity into a new species. Telepathy is also noted as a continuance of the Collective Unconsciousness.

The Collective Unconscious is a level-select menu in the game Psychonauts.

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See also
Archetype
Collective consciousness
Pantheism
Paramatman
Synchronicity
Subconscious mind
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Further reading
Jung, Carl. The Development of Personality
Jung, Carl. "Psychic conflicts in a child.", Collected Works of C. G. Jung, 17, Princeton University Press, 1970. 235 p. (p. 1-35).
Whitmont, Edward C. (1969). The Symbolic Quest. Princeton University Press.
Gallo, Ernest. "Synchronicity and the Archetypes," Skeptical Inquirer 18 (4), Summer 1994.
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External links
Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism A pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious"
Category: Jungian psychology






Resonance is a journal of science education, published monthly by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, entering its second decade of publication. The journal is primarily directed at students and teachers at the undergraduate level, though some of the articles may go beyond this range. Resonance has a council of editors drawn from institutions all over in India, with a Chief Editor and several Associate Editors located in Bangalore.
Each issue of Resonance contains articles on physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science and engineering. The format is attractive and easy to read, with photographs, illustrations, margin notes, boxes and space for comments provided. The articles are of various categories: individual general articles, series made up of several parts, concise article-in-boxes, classroom pieces, nature-watch pieces, research news, book reviews, and information and announcements useful to students and teachers. Each issue of Resonance also highlights the contributions of a chosen scientist, engineer or mathematician, with a portrait on the back cover and articles describing his or her life and work. In some cases, an article written by the scientist on a general theme is included as a Classic or a Reflections item. Some of the personalities featured so far are -- Einstein, Schroedinger, Pauli, Chandrasekhar, Raman, S N Bose, von Neumann, Turing, Darwin, McClintock, Haldane, Fisher, Lorenz, Mendel, Dobhzansky, Pauling, the Bernoullis, Fermat, Harish-Chandra, Ramanujan and Weil.

Resonance invites original contributions in various branches of science and engineering and emphasizes a lucid style that will attract readers from diverse backgrounds. A helpful general rule is that at least the first one third of the article should be readily understood by a general audience. Articles may be submitted to any of the editors or directly to the editorial office. All submissions are refereed. Students and teachers are particularly encouraged to submit articles. Comments and suggestions about articles are also welcome.

http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/








FRISSON is a collaboration between Art Museums, Galleries, and the Poetry Initiative to celebrate the creative frisson that can come from the meeting of at least two genres of the arts: poetry and the fine arts.

FRISSON brings writers into museums so that they can spend time with and respond to the holdings of the museums in the form of poems. Through a series of workshops, readings, art talks and public performances, FRISSON pools the resources of writers and museums in a partnership that reaches deep into the community.

FRISSON creates a new and dynamic audience for Museums and poets and has found innovative ways to meet the objectives of the museums in their goals of reaching a wider cross section of the community.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/frisson.htm

Answer 6

Read the whole thing and figure out what it means or look in the dictionary.