Collective Unconscious is a part of the unconscious mind that is originated from ancestral memory and experience. Carl Gustav Jung stated that everyone, despite differences in personal experience, share a deep level of the unconscious mind. According to the text, collective unconscious contains “primordial images” called archetypes. Archetypes predispose us to experience the world in a certain universal way. They have an emotional and cognitive component of associated ideas that influence behavior. Archetypes emerge through the self-organization of the mind based on fundamental emotional and cognitive processes that are inherited. There are many different archetypes that Jung listed, which include the mother, the father, the child, hero,
