Unrequitted Collective Unconscious

Another example of the strange meanderings of mind.
In the shower I found myself thinking about the film Mars Attacks. I saw it recently for the first time. A Tim Burton classic. It's a strange film, with some, often dark, humour, but also with the ability of playing with the clichés of the genre. Both of SF and film.

In this film there's a couple, a man and a woman, that, as soon as they cast their eyes on one another, they fall in love.
But, throughout the story the two never truly get the chance to be together.Yet, on one of the last scenes of the film, with everything blowing apart around them, they kiss for the very first (and last) time.
As I observed my mind replaying this scene I pondered why unrequitted love is such a powerful hook for us.
The mind flash backwards rapidly, putting aside considerations of failed teen love and delved deeper into childhood. to the first experiences of love.
Surely these must come from our parents. Thus, our first experiences of failed and unfulfilled love, must come from them as well.
In fact, perhaps only through this lack of love/attention that at some point parents will inevitably display did we began to gain awareness about love itself.
In this way, perhaps unrequitted love is not only connected to our earliest experiences of love itself (and therefore deeply imprinted in our beings) but might be also the very form upon which the concept/experience of love lies more closely.

But before my mind wandered in this direction, it began thinking about aliens and film and how culture so easily finds its way into the unconscious. How subtly these imageries of films and art can enter the minds of those that can then affirm that they have made contact with such beings. Even if all of these powerful experiences might have (without them being aware of this) simply have happened in their minds. Then I thought of Jung. The Collective Unconscious. How amazed he would be if he saw this world of ours, with the media so widespread and prevalent in our lives.
Perhaps he'd say that what this society is attempting is the "homogenisation of the unconscious".

There was also an idea for a story that surfaced as I pondered the relation between sexuality and spirituality. Essentially what has often been pointed out to me: that the guru, the spiritual master, tends to be identified with a male figure rather than a female one.
I don't think I'll make a book or even a short story about it but I think I'll placed it inside another story... that sounds about right...

Just thought I'd share...

Peace.