“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”--Carl Jung
“Man has developed consciousness slowly and laboriously, in a process that took untold ages to reach the civilized state. And this evolution is far from complete, for large areas of the human mind are still shrouded in darkness.”
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Explore Unconscious
Freud divided the mind into three psychological forces: the conscious, the subconscious, and the unconscious. He used the analogy of an iceberg to describe his model. He believed the conscious to be the tip of the iceberg: the small part of mental activity that we are aware of, whereas the unconscious is like the submerged portion of the iceberg: unseen yet constituting the bulk of one’s mental activity. He took the subconscious to be the vastly more powerful internal forces behind human behavior. From this foundation, his student Carl Jung further distinguished between two levels of the unconscious: the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, as he defined below: "In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”--Carl Jung
