
Jung in the World | Technology & the Self 3: Myth, Archetypes, and Avatar Personas in Online Games with Patrick Jagoda
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The Collective Unconscious in a Game
The collective develops in a game, meaning have you actually observed that a game shows signs of having a collective unconscious? Yeah, absolutely. I think this happens most profoundly and massively multiplayer online games that are oftentimes have player bases of millions of people. That world is running even if you're not there. So it's very much like everyday life. If I have a guild and I have 20 other people or 100 other people that I rely on, I may see them once a day for an hour or two hours or even four hours. And they may report something to me or I might report something to them. We're creating really co-creating this shared organization in the form of a
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