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Dexter Morgan's Personality Analysis Of Carl Jung

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Dexter Morgan meets Carl Jung = one killer personality analysis Dexter Morgan is a serial killer. However, he differs from most because instead of serially killing people, he kills other serial killers. This might be due to seeing his own mother get murdered right in front of him at a very young age. In fact, he even works for Miami Metro as their blood spatter analysist! Talk about ironic. Throughout the course of the show we see Dexter struggle with who he truly is versus whom he wants others to perceive him as. Neo-analytic theorist Carl Jung believed that there were two forms of the unconscious: the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. Under the collective unconscious falls archetypes, which are universal, and common

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