The unconscious personnel and collective is a concept suitable for the Psychanalyse jungienne, named better analytical Psychologie. within this framework it has its own definition. The unconscious one comprises an unconscious personnel and an unconscious collective.

Foreword with unconscious the " personnel and collectif"

" The complexity of the psychoanalysis jungienne is due to the fact that all the psychic authorities are in close relations the ones with the others. To describe a concept separately gives of him a vision inevitably partial because not holding account neither of the dynamic relationship with the other authorities nor of the whole of the psychic system. All is bound, all is in mouvement." in the psychoanalysis jungienne, Essentialis Collection, ED. Bernet-Danilot, April 2002

Even if the unconscious one were in fact already known since Leibnitz, i.e. since the 17th century, the modern concept of Inconscient, can be allotted to Sigmund Freud. This one had the merit to apply it to individual cases and to sensitize on methods of investigation for patients reached of mental health disorders. The point of view of Sigmund Freud refers to the idea of unconscious individual and it is, on this subject also, opposed to the idea of Switzerland Carl Gustav Jung of Inconscient collective. This idea was developed by this last, one moment close to the psychoanalysis freudienne, then having created its own school of analytical Psychology.

• “psychology is science of more young people and because she endeavors to elucidate what occurs in the unconscious one, she encounters an extreme form of misoneism. ” in C.G. Jung " The man and his symbols " , Robert Laffont, 1964 p 31.

• “… psychology is not only one personal fact. The unconscious one, which has its own laws and of the autonomous mechanisms, exerts on us an important influence, which one could compare with a cosmic disturbance. The unconscious one has the capacity to transport us or to wound us in the same way that a cosmic or weather catastrophe. ” in C.G. Jung " On the Interpretation of the dreams " , Albin Michel, 1998 p 218.

The unconscious one comprises an unconscious personnel and an unconscious collective according to Carl Gustav Jung.

The concept of unconscious " personnel and collectif"

Jung borrowed has Sigmund Freud this concept to move it within the framework of analytical psychology. As for any conceptual displacement of a framework has another, Jung recognizes on the one hand the paternity of the concept and on the other hand redefines it while returning reason of the new direction of the concept within the framework of its theory. A concept which cannot have direction that compared to other concepts within a theoretical framework given. “It is Sigmund Freud, which it first, tried to empirically explore the unconscious background of the conscience. It adopted approach that the dreams are not the product of the chance, but are in relation to our conscious thoughts and our problems. Such an assumption did not have anything arbitrary. It was based on the conclusion, to which had arrived of the eminent neurologists, (for example Pierre Janet), who the symptoms nevrotic are related to a conscious experiment. It even seems that these symptoms are the demonstration of zones dissociated from our conscience, which, at another time and under other conditions, can become again conscious.” in C.G. Jung " The man and his symbols " , Robert Laffont, 1964 p 25/26.

The dream is for Jung, as it is it for Freud, “the royal roads” leading to the unconscious one. Jung professes the largest respect with regard to the dream and of its message. It reveals in its eyes the existence of an objective psychism, of a natural wisdom which tends to the self-regulation of psyché and of which it is the voice. The dream which “translates the state of unconscious at a given time” normally exerts a function of complementarity compared to the conscious attitudes. It is a natural production which must be examined like such.

See also: Dream (analytical psychology)

Resistance to the concept of unconscious " personnel and collectif"

See also: Resistance (analytical psychology)

• “That which denies the existence of unconscious supposes in fact that we know today completely psyché. And this assumption is of a falseness as obvious as the assumption as we know all that there is to know of the physical universe.

• Our psyché belongs to nature and its enigma is also deprived of limits. It results from it that we can define neither psyché, nor nature. ” in C.G. Jung " The man and his symbols " , Robert Laffont, 1964 p 23.

• Bon number of anybody does not believe that the unconscious one exists or that they have an interior life. It is said whereas they are in resistance, this resistance to them even also appears in the standpoint anti-analytical or anti-psychological of some, it is what one names the misoneism.

• “psychology is science of more young people and because she endeavors to elucidate what occurs in the unconscious one, she encounters an extreme form of misoneism. ” in C.G. Jung " The man and his symbols " , Robert Laffont, 1964 p 31.

Some aspects of unconscious the " personnel and collectif"

Aspect of influence on the conscience

“… psychology is not only one personal fact. The unconscious one, which has its own laws and of the autonomous mechanisms, exerts on us an important influence, which one could compare with a cosmic disturbance. The unconscious one has the capacity to transport us or to wound us in the same way that a cosmic or weather catastrophe. ” in C.G. Jung " On the Interpretation of the dreams " , Albin Michel, 1998 p 218.

Aspect mortifère

“It can happen that the unconscious one aspires to dead against the conscious will. God thank you, this situation is not very frequent. But in certain cases the subject would like to live, while about it being prevented by an unconscious impulse which it constrained to die. I did not have often, God keeps me, business with such cases, if they are not two or three, very impressive. The unconscious one made the bed of death, and there was not average to be concealed there. ”

C.G. Jung " On the Interpretation of the dreams " , Albin Michel, 1998 p 185.

Aspect of the unconscious collective

" The unconscious collective is an empirical and operational concept created by Jung in contact with the mental very ill patients: the personal history is not enough to explain and include/understand the whole of operations and psychic contents concerned in mental pathology. There would thus exist psychic authorities concerned with the humanity rather than of the individual. " in the psychoanalysis jungienne, Essentialis Collection, ED. Bernet-Danilot, April 2002

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