The Collective Consciousness is a term coined by sociologist Emile Durkheim to describe social facts and social constructs that appear to emerge in the collective organism we call society. In Durkheim’s words, it represents ‘the body of beliefs and sentiments common to the average of members of a society’. It is a Persona-based complement to Jung’s Collective Unconscious, and is primarily represented in the left hemisphere orbitofrontal, anterior cingulate, middle cingulate, and anterior superior and posterior temporal areas.