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In his essay, "The Personal and the Collective Unconscious," Carl Jung interprets the unconscious mind through the analyzing of dreams. Jung agrees with Freud that a certain part of the unconscious is reserved for forgotten or repressed memories, which he refers to as the "personal unconscious" (494). All contents of the personal unconscious derive from personal experience in the conscious mind. However, Jung suggests that the personal unconscious is not the deepest (or most important) layer. There is another layer to our unconscious, which Jung calls the collective unconscious. This form of the unconscious does not derive from personal experience; rather, it contains impersonal, collective components in the form of inherited categories or archetypes that are manifested and recognized by all people in all cultures (496). The contents of the collective unconscious are referred to as archetypes, since they are primordial images that have persisted since our earliest human......

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