Volume 28, 2018
Philosophical Anthropology
Manzura Kabulova
Pages 69-71
The Essence and Role of Genetic Memory in Personality Development
Genetic memory usually means the phenomenon being absent in the vital experience of a person. Scientists are not able to define exactly where it is. Some of them suppose that it is located somewhere in the backyard of the biologic memory. The others consider it to be somewhere in the remote sites of the subliminal consciousness. According to K. G. Jung, genetic memory is imbedded in the unconscious structures. The genetic memory is the most ancient in all living beings. It is the memory of the biologic species by which all structural and functional organizations of every individual are reproduced. The ancient genetic memory constitutes the most essential part of memory of every organism, including a human being. Déjà vu cases, when a person having found himself in an unfamiliar place recalls it though he has never been there before, confirm it. Or songs being sung in the unknown language might be perceived as a native one and consonant to his soul feelings. Or works of art may indicate the relation between quite different nations.