Racial memory

Racial memory

Racial memory is a concept in Jungian psychology. Racial memories are posited memories, feelings and ideas inherited from our ancestors as part of a "collective unconscious". [Reber, A.S & Reber, E. Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 3rd ed. Penguin ISBN 0-14-051451.]

ee also

*Genetic memory
*Genetic memory in fiction
*Metagenetics

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