AP PSYCHOLOGY

PERSONALITY

PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
who believed in a collective unconscious?
A
Jung
B
Adler
C
Horney
D
Freud
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Carl Jung’s theory is the collective unconscious. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences. We use this collective consciousness to give meaning to the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts, as well as by archetypes: ancient primal symbols such as The Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, and the Tree of Life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Back in the early days of analytical psychology, Carl Jung had an idea. He theorized that there was a split between a collective unconscious level that everyone shared, and a personal unconscious that was entirely unique to an individual.

Detailed explanation-4: -The concept of collective consciousness was discussed in Rigveda The term was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his The Division of Labour in Society in 1893. The French word conscience generally means “conscience", “consciousness", “awareness", or “perception".

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