the time being, while the collective unconscious and its archetypes are universal and stand completely apart from the personal in the life of an individual. So where is the soul? Now it’s necessary to focus on an issue as to what Jung really meant by the “personal unconscious” as part of the soul structure.
Jung defines this segment of human psyche as a certain region adjacent to the Ego. He feels that the personal unconscious contains ideas and emotions which at one time used to be conscious but at present are repressed, forgotten or for some reason purposefully ignored or forced out. It’s a certain dark corner of our subconscious “Ego” (which Jung himself called the Shadow) where all forgotten and repressed contents “live the lives of their own”, and which unlike the collective unconscious, consists of one’s personal experience, aquired during one’s life time. Naturally in the light of our research and new findings we beg to differ with this assumption.
According to Jung, the realm of the collective unconscious also includes
people’s complexes. We percieve the personal unconscious complex as a
combination or constellation of feelings, ideas, perceptions, memories, etc. This complex contains a nucleus which like a magnet attracts various emotions, as if “constellating” the latter. If we take the “mother complex” whose nucleus is created due to mother connected both racial and child emotions, then all thoughts, feelings and memories related to mother will be attracted to this nucleus, creating a complex. And the more powerful the force of the nucleus the more emotions it withdraws. According to Jung, a person, dominated by his mother, will possess a strong mother-complex. And in this case all his thoughts,
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