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Inanalytical psychology, thepersonal unconscious is aJungian term referring to the part of the unconscious that can be brought to the conscious mind. It is Carl Jung's equivalent to theFreudianunconscious, in contrast to the Jungian concept of thecollective unconscious. Often referred by him as "No man's land," the personal unconscious is located at the fringe ofconsciousness, between two worlds: "the exterior or spatial world and the interior or psychic objective world" (Ellenberger, 707). AsCharles Baudouin states, "That the unconscious extends so far beyond consciousness is simply the counterpart of the fact that the exterior world extends so far beyond our visual field" (Ellenberger, 707).
The personal unconscious is made up of bothmemories that are easily brought to mind and those that have beenforgotten orrepressed. Jung's theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to Freud's creation of a region containing a person's repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences. However, Jung considered the personal unconscious to be a "more or less superficial layer of the unconscious." Within the personal unconscious are what he called "feeling-toned complexes." He said that "they constitute the personal and private side of psychic life."
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