Throughout his career, Jung felt the psyche had 'ancestral layers' that contained elements of an individual's species history, and clinical experience has shown that this idea can be an aid to psychological healing and emotional well-being. Thus, some later thinkers have attempted to link such theoretical constructs to the genome, as Jung had little knowledge of genetics in his day. But in the early 2000s, genome studies suggested that the genome might contain too little content to be capable of encoding symbolic information. This opinion gave rise to an oft-repeated 'impoverished genome' argument, i.e. that the genome could not provide a significant contribution to the collective unconscious, prompting theorists to propose other sources for it, or to argue that it doesn't exist. Today, however, developments in evolutionary neurogenetics calls the impoverished genome argument into question for a number of independent reasons. These developments re-open the idea that the genome may be worth reconsidering as the biological substrate for the collective unconscious.

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原型和“贫困基因组”论点：进化遗传学的更新

在他的整个职业生涯中，荣格认为心理具有包含个体物种历史元素的“祖先层”，临床经验表明，这种想法可以帮助心理治疗和情绪健康。因此，一些后来的思想家试图将这种理论结构与基因组联系起来，因为荣格当时对遗传学知之甚少。但在 2000 年代初期，基因组研究表明，基因组可能包含的内容太少，无法编码符号信息。这种观点引起了经常重复的“基因组贫乏”的论点，即基因组不能对集体无意识做出重大贡献，促使理论家为它提出其他来源，或者争辩说它不存在。然而今天，由于许多独立的原因，进化神经遗传学的发展使贫乏的基因组论点受到质疑。这些发展重新开启了这样一种观点，即基因组作为集体无意识的生物基础可能值得重新考虑。