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Collective Unconscious, sometimes known as Collective Subconscious, is a term of analytical psychology
Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition....
, coined by Carl Jung
Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counterculture movements across the globe....
. While Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
 did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal
Personal unconscious

In analytical psychology, the personal unconscious is Carl Jung's term for the Sigmund Freud Unconscious mind, as contrasted with the collective unconscious....
 subconscious
Unconscious mind

The Unconscious is a term invented by the 18th century German philosophy romanticism philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
 particular to each human being. The collective unconscious is also known as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species."

In the "Definitions" chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of "collective" Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Levy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think.






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Collective Unconscious, sometimes known as Collective Subconscious, is a term of analytical psychology
Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition....
, coined by Carl Jung
Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counterculture movements across the globe....
. While Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
 did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal
Personal unconscious

In analytical psychology, the personal unconscious is Carl Jung's term for the Sigmund Freud Unconscious mind, as contrasted with the collective unconscious....
 subconscious
Unconscious mind

The Unconscious is a term invented by the 18th century German philosophy romanticism philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
 particular to each human being. The collective unconscious is also known as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species."

In the "Definitions" chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of "collective" Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Levy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think. Jung says this is what he describes as the collective unconscious. Freud, on the other hand, did not accept the idea of a collective unconscious.

See also

  • 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness
    8-Circuit Model of Consciousness

    The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a theory of consciousness first proposed by psychologist Timothy Leary. It models the mind as a collection of 8 "circuits", with each circuit representing a higher stage of evolution than the one before it....
     (7th circuit)
  • Akashic Records
    Akashic Records

    The akashic records is a term used in theosophy to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical Plane . These records are described to contain all knowledge of human experience and the history of the cosmos....
  • Archetype
    Archetype

    An archetype is an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype after which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all....
  • Collective consciousness
    Collective consciousness

    Collective consciousness refers to the shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society. This term was used by the French social theorist ?mile Durkheim in his books The Division of Labour , The Rules of Sociological Method , Suicide , and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ....
  • Over-soul
    Over-soul

    "The Over-soul" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841."Over-soul" as a term has more recently come to be used by Eastern philosophers such as Meher Baba and others as the closest English language equivalent of the Vedic concept of Paramatman....
  • Pantheism
    Pantheism

    Pantheism is the view that everything is part of an all-encompassing Immanence abstract God. In pantheism the Universe, or nature, and God are equivalent....
  • Paramatman
    Paramatman

    In Hindu theology, Paramatman or Paramatma is the Absolute Atman or Supreme Soul or Spirit in the Vedanta and Yoga philosophies of India....
  • Synchronicity
    Synchronicity

    Synchronicity is the experience of two or more Event which are Causality occurring together in a supposedly Meaning manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance....
  • Spiritus Mundi
  • Subconscious mind
  • Unconscious mind
    Unconscious mind

    The Unconscious is a term invented by the 18th century German philosophy romanticism philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
  • Weltanschauung (World view)


Further reading

  • Jung, Carl. The Development of Personality.
  • Jung, Carl. (1970). "Psychic conflicts in a child.", Collected Works of C. G. Jung, 17. Princeton University Press. 235 p. (p. 1-35).
  • Whitmont, Edward C. (1969). The Symbolic Quest. Princeton University Press.
  • Gallo, Ernest. "Synchronicity and the Archetypes," Skeptical Inquirer, 18 (4). Summer 1994.


External links

  • A pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history.
  • Jungian Discussion Forum. All levels of discourse welcomed.


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