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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the collective unconscious otherwise known

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as a nap time and here's our question Which psychologist

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developed the idea that every culture has a collective unconscious

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that reflects its history and traditions on he repents on

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fraud young forney anther rogers So what do we mean

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when we say the phrase collective unconscious While that includes

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the thoughts values and ideas that are shared by a

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culture these ideas air passed down from one generation to

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the next and become an important part of their society

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Well collective unconscious might sound like it It involved dreaming

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But was the concept developed by freud Oh thankfully no

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If it was it'd probably get a little pg thirteen

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if you know what we mean Not our guy and

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feminist psychoanalyst karen horney didn't come up with a concept

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either but she totally could have Women are just as

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capable of developing ideas His men are alfred w adler

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is most well known for his work on the inferiority

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complex He stated that there are two forms of inferiority

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feelings a primary feeling that's rooted in the child's experience

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Of weakness and dependency and the secondary feeling that relates

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to be adult desire to achieve perfection and how that's

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well you know basically impossible What he didn't do was

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developed the idea of the collective unconscious but that doesn't

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make him any worse than any other psychologists All right

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well how about carl rogers Well he developed the humanistic

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approach to psychology all about achieving one's greatest potential through

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self actualization Yes his potential had nothing to do with

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inventing the idea of the collective unconscious because well that

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wasn't him either So who do we have left Just

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carl young who studied many different cultures and found similarities

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among the way members of each discussed topics like religion

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and morality therefore concluding that there was a culturally specific

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collective unconscious great theory carl A riel collector's item No

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