" The theory of heredity, proving that the child has the ancestral heritage biologically in himself, and to a large extent actually 'is' this heritage, also has a psychological justification. Jung therefore defines the transpersonal — or the archetypes and instincts of the collective unconscious — as 'the deposit of ancestral experience.' Hence the child, whose life as a prepersonal entity is largely determined by the collective unconscious, actually is the living carrier of this ancestral experience. "

― Erich Neumann , The Origins and History of Consciousness