The concept of ‘Collective Unconscious’ was given by:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Carl Jung
Carl Jung worked with Freud early in his career but later broke away and developed his own theory, analytical psychology. He claimed that there was a collective unconscious consisting of archetypes or primordial images, which are inherited, not individually acquired; the God or the Mother Earth is an example of archetypes.
The other psychologists in the options, such as Karen Horney, Alfred Adler and Erich Fromm, were also neo-Freudians, but none of them gave the idea of a collective unconscious; it is Jung’s idea alone.
NCERT (2025-26): “Carl Jung : Aims and Aspirations … Jung worked with Freud in his early stages of career, but later on he broke away from Freud. Jung saw human beings guided as much by aims and aspirations as by sex and aggression. He developed his own theory of personality, called analytical psychology. The basic assumption of his theory is that personality consists of competing forces and structures within the individual (that must be balanced) rather than between the individual and the demands of society, or between the individual and reality. Jung claimed that there was a collective unconscious consisting of archetypes or primordial images. These are not individually acquired, but are inherited. The God or the Mother Earth is a good example of archetypes. They are found in myths, dreams and arts of all mankind.…” |