The human subconscious is not only the repository of personal experiences and memories but also those of the whole of humanity. But he held that Freud had failed to take into account what he called the ‘collective consciousness’ as an expansion of the id. He also believed in the Freudian concept that many forms of neurosis were the result of the conflicts between the conscious and the unconscious. He agreed with Freud about the subconscious as a repository of primal desires. While Freud did not tolerate any ideas that were against his, Jung had different views. Sigmund Freud did not accept the concept of the collective unconscious. His belief in the universal consciousness was the central difference between him and Freud, which permanently separated the two. He considered the religious impulse to be naturally and universally a part of human consciousness. Jung did not see eye to eye with Freud about the notion of organized religion. The notion of collective consciousness was put forward by Carl Gustav Jung (Image: Lightspring/Shutterstock) Jung’s Theories about Collective UnconsciousĬarl Jung was Freud’s best student and closest disciple, who continued Freud’s psychoanalytic movement. This notion of collective superego was extended by Carl Gustav Jung. He also thought that organized religion, like the state and the culture, works as a collective superego that controls and represses the human urge to be a self. According to Freud, a person’s subconscious is shaped through their relations with certain people in their life. Rather than the dividing line on the Great Chain of Being, we were nothing more than the products of our childhood traumas suggested by Sigmund Freud’s tripartite theory of mind. By Steven Gimbel, Ph.D., Gettysburg College The 20 th century witnessed the destruction of the notion we had about ourselves as human beings.
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