Carl Jung referred to a shared reservoir of memory traces from our species' history as the

A) false consensus effect.
B) pleasure principle.
C) collective unconscious.
D) erogenous zone.

Collective Unconscious

The collective unconscious is a concept in psychoanalytic theory that refers to a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humanity, that is the product of ancestral experience.

Memory Traces

Theoretical concepts indicating the physical or chemical changes in the brain that represent a memory.