The Ego is the organizer and center of consensus in the Psyche. It is both conscious and unconscious.

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- ego
- personal unconscious
- collective unconscious

Structures of the Psyche

Olson, Matthew H., et al. An Introduction to Theories of Personality. 9th ed., Pearson, 2020. 

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The personal unconscious is a concept in Jung's analytical psychology that refers to the layer of the mind containing an individual's unique experiences that have been forgotten or repressed. While Carl Jung incorporated this idea, which is similar to Freud's concept of the unconscious, he viewed it as an incomplete explanation of the unconscious mind on its own.

Personal Unconscious

The collective unconscious, a concept from Carl Jung's analytical psychology, is a universal version of the personal unconscious. It functions as a theoretical repository for 'memory traces' or mental patterns inherited from our ancestors and shared by all of humanity. These ancestral memories contain universal themes and symbols known as archetypes, which are common to all people regardless of culture.

Collective Unconscious

Jung understood the Psyche in a deeper way after studying psychotic patients in Burghölzi. He found that delusions and hallucinations were at least in a small way, meaningful to the patients. He also put blame on the doctors of the patients instead of the patients themselves because he saw the issue as a lack of others not understanding them rather than the patient’s disorderly state being the problem.

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