collective unconscious
noun
: the inherited part of the unconscious that especially in the psychoanalytic theory of Carl Gustav Jung occurs in and is shared by all the members of a people or race
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Shadow is one of them but also synchronicity, introversion and extroversion, the collective unconscious.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
Despite his policy errors and his diminished status inside the Beltway, his ideas and worldview lodged themselves deep inside the collective unconscious of the American foreign policy establishment—and remain there today, although sometimes in ways that are hard to see at first.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Saved Stories Few faces have burned deeper into the collective unconscious than Nicolas Cage’s.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
Jung believed that these archetypes are part of the collective unconscious, shared by individuals across cultures and generations.
—Dan Serard, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
Despite his policy errors and his diminished status inside the Beltway, his ideas and worldview lodged themselves deep inside the collective unconscious of the American foreign policy establishment—and remain there today, although sometimes in ways that are hard to see at first.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Saved Stories Few faces have burned deeper into the collective unconscious than Nicolas Cage’s.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
Jung believed that these archetypes are part of the collective unconscious, shared by individuals across cultures and generations.
—Dan Serard, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
See all Example Sentences for collective unconscious
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collective unconscious
noun
col·lec·tive unconscious
kə-ˈlek-tiv- 
: the genetically determined part of the unconscious that especially in the psychoanalytic theory of C. G. Jung occurs in all the members of a people or race
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