“Inception”: Carl Jung’s Wet Dream

Scott Myers
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12 min readAug 3, 2010

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Either Christopher Nolan has studied Carl Jung or he tapped into the collective unconscious big time with his movie Inception.

My take on the movie: Inception is Carl Jung’s wet dream.

Projections. Talismans. Symbols. Consciousness. Unconsciousness. Subconsciousness. The Collective Unconscious. Memories. Archetypes. The Shadow. Psyche. Transformation. Individuation…

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