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JUNG: ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY Proponent: Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, a town on Lake Constance in Switzerland. Photo source: maxresdefault.jpg Levels of Psyche Jung based his personality theory on the assumption that the mind, or psyche, has both a conscious and an unconscious level. Unlike Freud, however, Jung strongly asserted that the most important portion of the unconscious springs not from personal experiences of the individual but from the distant past of human exis- tence, a concept Jung called the collective unconscious. Of lesser importance to Jungian theory are the conscious and the personal unconscious. 1. Conscious - According to Jung, conscious images are those that are sensed by the ego, whereas unconscious elements have no relationship with the ego. Jung’s notion of the ego is more restrictive than Freud’s. Jung saw the ego as the center of consciousness, but not the co...