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, the personal unconscious is

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's term for the

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unconscious, as contrasted with the Jungian concept of the

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. Often referred to by him as "No man’s land," the personal unconscious is located at the fringe of

consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ...

, between two worlds: "the exterior or spatial world and the interior or psychic objective world" (Ellenberger, 707). As

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states, "That the unconscious extends so far beyond consciousness is simply the counterpart of the fact that the exterior world extends so far beyond our visual field" (Ellenberger, 707). The personal unconscious includes anything which is not presently conscious but can be. The personal unconscious is made up essentially of contents which have at one time been conscious but have disappeared from consciousness through having been forgotten or repressed. The personal unconscious is like most people's understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both

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that are easily brought to mind and those that have been

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for some reason. Jung's theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to Freud's creation of a region containing a person's repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences. However, Jung considered the personal unconscious to be a "more or less superficial layer of the unconscious." Within the personal unconscious are what he called "feeling-toned complexes." He said that "they constitute the personal and private side of psychic life."

References

*C. G. Jung. ''The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious'', 2nd ed., trans. by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969, p. 4. * Henri Ellenberger (1970). ''

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: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry''. New York: Basic Books. {{DEFAULTSORT:Personal Unconscious Analytical psychology