Objective psyche

1. Etymology

Objective psyche in Sharp is a cross-reference: see collective-unconscious. Samuels: psyche as objective source of knowledge; and contents that are objective rather than personal/subjective—equated with the collective unconscious.

2. Plain summary

Descent Press treats objective psyche as Index hub to collective-unconscious, not a free-floating synonym leaf. Sharp redirects. Samuels’s double use: (1) psyche has objective existence as source of knowledge, insight, imagination (see psychic reality); (2) certain contents are objective/collective rather than personal—equated with collective unconscious (CW 7 ¶103 n.).

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common objective-psyche motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
Sharp redirect CU; Samuels dual sense (objective existence / collective contents); equate with collective-unconscious; dual-stamp CU-1–4; psychic-reality neighborhood.

3. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology objective psyche is index hub / synonym path to collective unconscious—Sharp redirect; Samuels p. 100. dual-stamp of CU (already folded)—do not rewrite CU-1–4.

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Objective psyche. See collective unconscious.

(Sharp, 1991)

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — objective psyche p. 100

objective psyche A term used by Jung in two ways: first, to denote that the PSYCHE has objective existence as a source of knowledge, insight and imagination… Second, to indicate that certain of the contents of the psyche are of an objective rather than a personal or subjective nature. In this regard, he equated the objective psyche with what he called 'the collective unconscious' (CW 7, para. 103 n.).

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986/2013, p. 100)

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature … there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes…
(Jung, 1936/1968, CW 9i, p. 43, ¶90)

The collective unconscious—so far as we can say anything about it at all—appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents…
(Jung, 1927/1969, CW 8, pp. 204–205, ¶325)

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind’s evolution, born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
(Jung, 1927/1969, CW 8, pp. 212–213, ¶342)

CU-4 dual: CW 9i ¶262 1940/1968 — see collective-unconscious entry. Samuels also notes CW 7 ¶103 n. equate objective psyche ≈ collective unconscious — not separately stamped as new leaf.

See also: collective-unconscious; unconscious; archetypal-image; psychoid; ego.

References

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts. Inner City Books.