A Library Guide to Jung's Collected Works

"Jung’s emerging model of the psyche started to differ radically from Freud’s at this stage. The first level of the two levels of the unconscious, the dream’s ‘ground floor,’ Jung called the personal unconscious, which basically equates to the Id, more or less the entirety of the unconscious in Freud’s model." (p. 97) [Read more]

"The unconscious before we named it: "The idea of the unconscious — whether `collective' or `personal' — does not, of course, begin with Jung or Freud. The concept of a mind, or spirit or `will' outside of, and beyond, the everyday `conscious' mentality of human beings seems — as far as we can tell — to have existed across cultures and throughout human history. In other eras, the degree to which this `mind' resided in powerful others such as gods, animals, elements like the wind and rivers, or a single God, was emphasised much more than the modern idea that this was an aspect of the minds of human beings themselves. The way that serious attention was paid to dreams seems to be clear evidence of humankind's respect for, and interest in, a non-conscious aspect of mind." (p. 54)" [Read more]