Collective and Unconscious

The apparent contradiction between two of Jung's principles--Individuation and the better-known 'Collective Unconscious'--is due to the discrepancy between the latter phrase and the phenomenon it is used to characterize.  'Collective' connotes a concrete unity of a multiplicty, but Jung uses it to denote a deeply embedded identical substratum of the Psyche of each person, as is the case with Freud's Id.  However, this discrepancy between denotation and connotation constitutes a logical confusion--that the contents of each substratum are identical, e. g. an archetype, is not equivalent to that there exists a collective entity distinct from the multiplicity of persons in each of whom those contents inhere. Compounding the confusion is his use of the less personal 'unconscious' in place of 'subconscious', which is more clearly located within an individual Psyche.  Finally, the quantifier 'the' implies that there is only one 'unconscious', rather than as many unconsciousnesses as there are personal Psyches.  As a result, his logical confusion verges on the totalitarian mystification that personal behavior is influenced by some super-personal force.  But, in the absences of a concrete embodiment of such a force, and a derivation of personal behavior from it, the Jungian Psyche remains, like Freud's, a confused Atomist concept that is more coherently expressed by his Individuation principle.