Carl Jung emphasized the importance of ________ in personality functioning.

A) inferiority feelings
B) psychosexual stages
C) the collective unconscious
D) unconditional positive regard

Collective Unconscious

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a part of the unconscious mind that is shared among beings of the same species, containing ancestral memories.

Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for his theories of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and psychological types.

Personality Functioning

Refers to the adaptive and maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize an individual.