With Jung and Suhrawardi

This treatise is prepared to answer several important fundamental questions regarding Dr. Carl Gustav Jung’s personality theory. Did Jung, influenced by Illuminationist philosophers, invent the two concepts of collective unconscious and archetypes? Is there a similarity between Suhrawardi’s and Jung’s theories? Can modern scientific findings support the idea that learned traits from ancient times gradually enter human genetic structures and are passed down as a genetic repository to future generations? The author addresses these essential questions in four sections: 1- Generalities 2- Philosophical aspects of the two concepts: collective unconscious and archetypes 3- Scientific aspects of these two concepts 4- Conclusion, which provides an overall summary of all the discussions presented in the treatise and offers a comprehensive synthesis.