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Genetic memory is invoked to explain the racial memory postulated by Carl Jung. In Jungian psychology, racial memories are posited memories, feelings and ideas inherited from our ancestors as part of a "collective unconscious".[2]

Genetic memory and languageEdit


Historical viewsEdit


This 19th-century view is not wholly dead, albeit that it stands in stark contrast to the ideas of neo-Darwinism. In Modern Psychology, Genetic memory is generally considered a false idea. However, psychologists such as Stuart A. Newman and Gerd B. Müller have contributed to the idea in the 21st century.[5]



See alsoEdit


  1. 1.0 1.1 Rodolfo R. Llinas (2001). I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self, 190–191, MIT Press.
  2. Reber, A.S & Reber, E. Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 3rd ed. Penguin ISBN 0-14-051451.
  3. Louis D. Matzel (2002). "Learning Mutants" Harold E. Pashler Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology, John Wiley and Sons.
  4. Timothy L. Strickler (1978). Functional Osteology and Myology of the Shoulder in the Chiroptera, 325, Karger Publishers.
  5. Brian Keith Hall, Roy Douglas Pearson, and Gerd B. Müller (2003). Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis, 17, MIT Press.
  6. Robert F. Almeder (1992). Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life After Death, 28–29, Rowman & Littlefield.
  7. Susan J. Blackmore (1999). The Meme Machine, 60, Oxford University Press. ISBN 019286212X.
  8. John Donnelly (1994). Language, Metaphysics, and Death, 356, Fordham Univ Press.

Further readingEdit

  • Raymond Joseph Corsini (1999). "Genetic memory". The Dictionary of Psychology. Psychology Press. 410. ISBN 158391028X. 



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