Carl G. Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (Lightfoot, 2010). Jung constructed and developed several concepts including extroversion and introversion, the collective unconscious and archetypes (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). Furthermore, Jung has a personality system (also known as the psyche), which is analytical psychology, which suggests that intrapsychic forces can motivate humans and that the shared evolutionary history between people can actually derive different images (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). Deeply rooted spiritual concerns are involved in the inherited unconscious and this may also explain why people around the world strive to express their creativity and achieve psychic completion (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). In this essay he will discuss Jung's collective unconscious, the different evidence that supports it, the theory of archetypes and how it can affect our daily lives. Jung proposed that in addition to each of us having an ego and a personal unconscious, we also have a deeper structure in our psyche known as the collective unconscious (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). The collective unconscious stores hidden but present memories of the human species and even of its ancestors (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). It also represents thoughts and feelings about something that all human beings share because we all come from a common past (Hjelle and Ziegler, 1992). According to Jung, the collective unconscious is universal and its nature is the same within each individual (Jung, 1981). Furthermore, the collective unconscious cannot be developed by a single individual but it can be transmitted by heredity and reborn in every creature (Jung, 1981). The collective unconscious also contains the pre-existing forms which are middle of paper...... NY: Princeton.Jung, CG (1968). Analytical psychology: its theory and practice. New York, NY: Pantheon. Jung, C.G. (1971). The portable Jung. J. Campbell (ed.). (RFC Hull, Trans.) New York, NY: Penguin. Lightfoot, A. (2010). A parallel of words. Bloomington, in: AuthorHouse.Myths-Dreams-Symbols (2014). The Anima/Animus in Jungian psychology. Retrieved from http://www.mydrsy.com/animaanimus.htmlShayanahmed (2010). Jungian psychology. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/shayanahmed/anima-and-animus Stevens, A. (2006). Archetypes. In R. K. Papadopoulos (Eds.), The handbook of Jungian psychology: theory, practice, and applications. New York, NY: Routledge.Wikipedia (2014). Jungian archetypes. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypesWikipedia (2014). Shadow (psychology). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)