Carl Jung “collective unconscious”
Jung’s most important modification to the psychodynamic approach was to split the unconscious part of the mind into two:
- Personal Unconscious
- akin to Freud’s original conceptualization of the unconscious mind. Like Freud, Jung believed that the Personal Unconscious was filled with repressed thoughts, memories, and desires that influenced behaviour and determined our personality. The content contained within the Personal Unconscious is a result of experience.
- Collective Unconscious
- shared with all humankind, and that acts as a storehouse of latent memory traces from our ancestral past. According to Jung, the content contained within was inherited in much the same way that physical characteristics are. These are species typical mental archetypes.
Also Introduced the dichotomy of Introversion and Extroversion to Psychology.