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ollective unconscious comes from the parts of our brains that were developed before we got out fancy cerebral cortex, from our "lizard brains".
Things like falling in love at first sight, acting heroic etc are impulses coming from our collective unconsciousness, to be more exact these archetypes are structures within the collective unconscious that give us instincts to act in certain way(or at least guide us towards doing certain things).
In modern psychology the concept of collective unconsciousness is seen as a fact by most, simply because there has been studies don that show this in both humans and animals and they have found out brain structures responsible of those actions.
Birds being able to build nest on their own is one form of manifestation of collective unconscious, this nest building behavior could be seen as an instinct coming with the mother archetype.
This collective unconscious is basically an genetic memory that builds your brains(some also count the body) in a certain way, that leads to certain type of behavior due to instincta coming from those brain structures predermined by parts of dna which are shared by all people.
Never heard about that guy, but i dont think that guy is essential to the question wether collective unconsciousness is an valid theory or not.
In the sense which you have defined collective consciousness (R-Cortex), I agree wholeheartedly with your last statement. There are some who use the term to describe some sort of almost telepathic connection between people, as if they are part of a single organism. That this may be a misuse of the term is hardly the point. It was this meaning that I meant to discuss - I'm not that familiar with Jung, though I have always considered your explanation of C.U. to be the only valid one.