Swiss psychoanalysis Jung, Carl’s term for the unconscious prototypes of its parents the child constructs in order to mediate between itself and the social environment. It is an unconscious representation, which may or may not be reflected in reality. The child may hold the imago of a fierce father, yet in reality its father may be rather mild. Freud, Sigmund did not use this concept. References to it appear in the early work of Lacan, Jacques, but he dropped it in the 1950s.