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personal unconscious

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personal unconscious,
(in analytic psychology) the thoughts, ideas, emotions, and other mental phenomena acquired and repressed during one's lifetime. Compare collective unconscious.


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2) The shadow is the part of the personal unconscious containing aspects of the personality that are not integrated into the conscious identity because they have been rejected, repressed, or not yet realized.
For Jung, the unconscious comprises of both the personal unconscious (repressed material from everyday life) and the collective unconscious (archetypes) (Jung, 1960b: par.
collective contents, not the personal unconscious or shadow which does belong to the ego) it is in danger of destruction, like an overloaded vessel which sinks under the strain (Fordham, 1953).
 
 
 
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