Sunday, March 7, 2010

Tribal Tattoos and the Collective Unconscious

The psychologist Carl Jung spoke about the collective unconscious and how our dreams and tendency to use symbols was part of the collective unconscious. This may be one of the reasons why tribal tattoos are resurfacing in the modern world, where traditions that humans lived by for thousands of years are fading away.

The following article talks about this in a bit more depth:

Tribal Tattoos: Mining the Collective Unconscious?