Carl Jung's the "Collective Unconscious" and Sydney Owenson's Characters

From my doctoral dissertation (2nd book), pp. 80-82:

The mind interprets the experiences of life based on past physical and emotional responses to specific stimuli. When one is subjected to adverse stimuli, opportunities cease to function as positive motivations for continued success. On the other hand, when there are decisions that have been made to the improvement of one’s life, those become focal points for active, varied and positive participation in daily experiences. Therefore, in making decisions, one determines aspects of life in which to participate based on a collection of past experiences. The more positive experiences collected by an individual, the more likely she will make decisions of calculated risk to increase the potential of a success pattern. Carl Jung further explains this process: 

Instincts are impersonal, universally distributed, hereditary factors of a dynamic or motivating character, which very often fail so completely reach consciousness…Moreover, the instincts are not vague and indefinite by nature but are specifically formed motive forces which, long before there is any consciousness, and in spite of any degree of consciousness later, on, pursue their inherent goals. [1]

In the case of Owenson’s characters, they rely on the support of other characters to feel confident to pursue their hearts’ desires. The rhetoric of her narratives and poetry is dependent on the image created by Owenson’s linguistic model; hence, the created image needs memory constraints to provide her readers with familiar figures inherent to the meaning of the text. Even though the psychological elements are experienced within the mind, desire is expressed through various forms of communication, which include body language, speech and the written word. In addition to character development, Owenson uses rhetorical manipulation to explore her desire for the English government to engage peacefully with Ireland.

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[1] C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, translated by R.F.C. Hull (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 43.