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    Looking at the concept of archetypes in the collective unconscious is helpful in understanding the history of human beings as well as an individual's personal history. In every being there exists two psychic systems. The personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The personal unconscious is unique to each individual. It consists of a collection of forgotten or repressed experiences and memories that at one point were present in the conscious thoughts of the individual being. These repressed

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    The unconscious is an aspect of the human psyche that still baffles psychologist today. In our unconscious, we potentially contain repressed memories, desires, and behaviors. The individual unconsciously executes many of the behaviors or desires. However, there is more to the unconscious than our personal memories and behaviors. Carl G. Jung, a psychologist, was one of Freud’s friends and student. Jung diverged from Freud because his perception that the unconscious mainly contains repressed memories

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    Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious goes to explain how certain symbols, pictures, and memories from ancestors are instilled in the people of today. Examples of the collective unconscious would be developed within the four main archetypes. These archetypes are the persona, the anima/ animus, the shadow, and the self. The persona is also called the mask. This archetype displays how the world sees a person. One can choose how they carry themselves on the outside yet think completely different

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    The Personal and Collective Unconscious To many, the unconscious is a section of our minds that is inconceivable and almost nonexistent. Like many things in life, what we cannot explain, we cannot accept. Sigmund Freud, mastermind of the field of psychology, began to theorize and explain the concept of the unconscious and its effects on our personal lives. Carl Gustav Jung was a young colleague of Sigmund Freud who made the “exploration of this “inner space” [the unconscious] his life’s work (Boeree

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    perhaps not as collective unconscious, a theory proposed by psychologist Carl Jung, argues memories may transcend time—defying traditional thought (Saladin 70). Jung makes a bold claim with his hypothesis in his new found concept, collective unconscious, however it is not without flaw or even remotely impermeable to counter arguments. This theory asserts that there are “archetypes” or fundamentally instincts and memories passed down to all humans (939). Jung's collective unconscious is in gross

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    he retitled id as personal unconscious, ego as personal conscious and the superego as the collective conscious (Jung 1912). In addition to this, Jung added collective unconscious to Freud’s structure of personality. The personal unconscious includes memories that are concealed and those that can be evoked. According to Jung, collective unconscious is the level of unconscious shared amongst people containing memories from ancestors and our progressive past. This collective can be divided into various

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    The famous psychologist Carl Jung believed that the universe and all of its inhabitants are made up of a measureless web of thought called the collective unconscious, it’s suggests that the collective unconscious is rooted in the genetic code of every living thing. This collective unconscious is evident in an individual’s personality, which is comprised of five separate personalities blended together; these are called archetypes. In Jungian psychology, there are five different archetypes: the shadow

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    Jung's Collective Unconscious Essay

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    concepts including extraversion and introversion, collective unconscious and archetypes (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). Besides, Jung has a system of personality (also known as psyche), which is analytical psychology, suggested that intrapsychic forces can motivate humans and the shared evolutionary history among people can actually derived different images (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). The deep-rooted spiritual concerns are involved in the inherited unconscious and this also can explain why people in the world

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    The collective unconscious, refers to a segment of the deepest unconscious mind not shaped by personal experience. It's genetically inherited and common to all human beings. These collective unconscious was expressed through 'archetypes', universal thought forms or mental images that influenced an individual's feelings and action. For example, deep-seated beliefs regarding spirituality and religion may be partially due to the collective unconscious. They are innate projections. Like A newborn baby

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    Jung believed in a collective unconscious, which he defined as an inherited knowledge shared by all humans in their subconscious. Jung’s work in analytical psychology extensively analyzed myth’s roles in psychology. Jung believed that the universal collective unconscious could explain the similarities amongst the myths of disparate cultures. He noted that myths arose “autochthonously in every corner of the earth and yet [myths] are identical,” due to the collective unconscious (Segal 12). Jung hypothesized

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