Collective Unconscious

Collective Unconscious, sometimes known as Collective Subconscious, is a term of analytical psychologyAnalytical psychology
Analytical psychology is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition....
, coined by Carl JungCarl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counterculture movements across the globe....
. While FreudSigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
did not distinguish between an "individual psychology" and a "collective psychology", Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personalPersonal unconscious
In analytical psychology, the personal unconscious is Carl Jung's term for the Sigmund Freud Unconscious mind, as contrasted with the collective unconscious....
subconsciousUnconscious mind
The Unconscious is a term invented by the 18th century German philosophy romanticism philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
particular to each human being. The collective unconscious is also known as "a reservoir of the experiences of our species."