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Carl G.
Jung
Jung is
another important psychoanalytic theorist. He accepts that human mind is
structured of conscious and
unconscious
but he considered consciousness as second in importance to the
unconsciousness. He divides the unconscious into two parts: the PERSONAL
UNCONSCIOUS and the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.
The
personal unconscious is unique to the individual which contains repressed
and forgotten memories. He writes "most of earlier impressions in life are
soon forgotten and go to form the infantile layer of what I have called
the personal unconscious". It contains all forgotten impressions whether
they are acquired consciously or unconsciously. The collective unconscious
is transpersonal and shared by all human beings. The collective
unconscious is the product of our ancestral life. He says that people have
stored within their collective unconscious the cumulative experience of
past generations. The collective unconscious is developed through the
passage of time, though, he says that it is neither carried by children,
nor is it problematic for them.
His other
important concept is PERSONA which means that individuals have two faces
or masks: one which we present to others; and another which is very
personal.
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