PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Collective Unconscious, Personal Unconscious, Inferiority Complex
16 Jul 2018
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As a result, they often attempt to demonstrate their superiority to others at all costs, even if it means dominating them. For adler, most forms of mental illness are unhealthy attempts to overcompensate for the inferiority complex. The collective unconscious is our shared storehouse of memories that ancestors have passed down to us across generations. This is different from freud"s version of the unconscious - which jung termed the personal unconscious. We have developed a reservoir; we are all connected to particular symbols known as archetypes like the mother. If we dream of a mother like figure, we maybe thinking of something nurturing. Archetypes, are cross-culturally universal symbols which are used to explain the similarities across the people in their emotional reactions to many features of the world. (ex. the mandala, the mother, a goddess) Horney"s (pronounced: hor-nye") feminist psychology - she turned some of freud"s ideas to talk about it in a more feminist way.
