RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Collective Unconscious, Personal Unconscious, Psy
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Jung discusses his most well known and controversial concept: the collective unconscious. Aspect of unconscious which manifests inherited, universal themes which run through all human life. Contains archetypes, primordial images that reflect basic patterns or common to us all, and which have existed universally since the dawn of time. Part of psyche which can be negatively distinguished from a personal unconscious, because it does not, unlike a personal unconscious, exist from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition. Contents of consciousness have never been in consciousness and never been individually acquired, existence owed to heredity. Personal unconscious consists of complexes, collective unconscious made up of archetypes. Archetype: indicate existence of definite forms in the psyche which seem to be present always and everywhere (motifs in mythological research, representations collectives in psychology of primitives, categories of the imagination in comparative religion, elementary/ primordial thoughts by. Medical psyche insists on personal nature of the psyche (freud and.
