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The Evolutionary Origin of the Collective Unconscious and the Appeal of Research on Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans

2026-04-22

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Why does research on Neanderthals attract public attention far beyond its immediate scientific relevance? Such fascination reflects not merely intellectual curiosity but the activation of deep symbolic structures, what Carl Gustav Jung termed the collective unconscious. Neanderthals occupy a psychologically distinctive position as an "incorporated other": an extinct human lineage that remains genetically present i...

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Literature Corpus work: 92d57597-0e4d-58bd-95d5-92dba2499233
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202604.1530.v1

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