Collective consciousness was a term coined in Psychology by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim collective conscience as a superior translation of Durkheim's concept, in part due to the busy association of the word "consciousness" with both Marxist and Freudian thought, but also as "a conscience for Durkheim is pre-eminently the organ of sentiments and representations; it is not the rational organ that the term conciousness would imply." The term collective consciousness refers to the condition of the subject within the whole of society and how any given indivdual comes to view herself as a part of any given group.
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