Individuation—The Goal of the Psyche

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In Carl Jung’s psychology, the unconscious mind is not just the repository to shove obsolete experiences or repressed painful emotions that otherwise wouldn’t let us live.

Instead, it tells us things that no one else could. We don’t learn everything from experiencing. We learn about our human nature through the unconscious processes. The unconscious, in Jung’s terms, is the collective unconscious where all the potentialities of human existence exist. According to Jung, it is the "mind" that has the history of all humanity, even before the formation of the ego, i.e., whatever "existed" before life, to the moment you are reading this. And even beyond this moment, whatever will follow, this “mind” will accompany you.

The term 'unconscious' implies we do not know how we know it. Has a dream ever made you doubt yourself?…