is that it develops as the result of personal experience, but Jung does not accept that the origin of consciousness can be explained in terms of personal experience. Instead, he holds that consciousness arises in the first place from the unconscious. It is only because the child's mind is still near the unconscious that it operates intermittently. Between the ages of 11 and 14 or so, perception of personal identity and personal continuity appears so that the young person knows he or she is having an experience. This awareness is something new, for previously the child had been able to recall the events of earlier years, while now the child sees him or herself apart from them and is instead conscious of self (Bennet, 1961, pp. 80-81).
While it may appear that the individual mind is unique, it has much in common with other minds. Here is another area where Jung differs greatly from Freud, for he discerns a common substratum of the mind which he calls the collective unconscious. The individual is thus a member of a community and an individual and is at the same time a repository of collective attributes, such as the instincts. The individual may see these unlearned activities as his or her private property, and through them the individual can deal competently with certain environmental situations. However, the instincts are part of the constitution of everyone even though their manifestation may seem unique and essential for life. They cannot be classified as personal acquisitions (Bennet, 1961, p. 86).
The collective unconscious works through archetypes, the original pattern, or the prototype, or the inborn manner of comprehension comparable to the instincts which are inborn manners of acting. Freud was also aware of non-personal components in the mind, but he never accepted Jung's developed work on the collective unconscious (Bennet, 1961, p. 90). However, Freud's acceptance of these features in the psyche had no observ...