PSYC 3140 Lecture 73: PSYC 3140 Lecture 73
9 May 2018
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Lecture 73
• Ego
o Jung’s conception of the ego was similar to Freud’s.
o The ego is the mechanism by which we interact with the
physical world.
o The ego is everything of which we are conscious and is
concerned with thinking, problem solving, remembering, and
perceiving.
• According to Jung, Personal Unconscious consists of experiences
that had either been repressed or simply forgotten.
• Collective Unconscious and Archetypes
o The collective unconscious was Jung’s most mystical and
controversial concept, and his most important.
▪ The collective unconscious registers common
experiences that humans have had through the eons.
• These common experiences are recorded and
are inherited as predispositions to respond
emotionally to certain categories of experience.
o Archetypes are the inherited predispositions contained in the
collective unconscious as an archetype.
▪ Jung believed that at birth our minds contain a
structure of experiences of the preceding generations
that are passed on to new generations.
