ic contents to the ego.
According to Jung, individual consciousness is a structure that arises out of the unconscious and it gradually awakens in childhood and all throughout life. Examples of archetypes are anima and animus. Anima is a term that refers to the inner feminine side of a human being. This is the archetypal image of the women in the male psyche and it includes an unconscious part of the self that is incarnated in each male child. This archetype is projected and identified first with the personal mother and later in other women. Animus refers to the inner masculine side of a female. As with anima in the man, animus is a personal complex and an archetypal image. All ancestral experiences of man are deposited in the animus and found in the collective unconscious.
Another archetype is self, the archetype of wholeness. Self includes a transpersonal power that is more than ego. Self includes the entire range of psychic phenomena in human beings and expresses this unity through the personality. The personality is only part conscious but it is the center and includes the expression of the conscious and the unconscious. The ego represents the center of the consciousness and includes the personality; the ego regulates personal acts of consciousness (Jung, 1971).
Sharp (1991) reported additional terms related to encounters with the collective unconscious to include "abaissement du niveau mental" or "loss of soul," a term akin to the experience of depression. This emotion is experienced as listlessness and moroseness and a lack of courage to face the day. The individual feels unable to move with a paralysis effect due to the mental state. This can result from mental or physical fatigue, illness, violent emotions, or shock. Abreaction refers to the retelling and reliving of a traumatic event to help repressed emotional reactions become conscious. Adaptation refers to coming to terms with world; according t...