: 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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Recent Examples on the WebThe whole of it is like stepping into a time machine that goes in both directions at once: to the not-so-distant past of analog America and to a post-apocalyptic, post-human world that seems to reside in the collective unconscious. Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 It’s as though the film is a collective unconscious where ideas and themes tumble about and bubble to the surface via different modes of expression. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2022 These are the universal characters that reside within our collective unconscious. Yec, Forbes, 2 June 2022 And it is driven by an effort to sanitize our collective unconscious, to make our fascination with this dreamlike image express virtues such as compassion and hope. Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022 So trauma sank back down into the collective unconscious once more, only to reemerge after a defeat inflicted on U.S. forces that—because of all the asymmetries of force and culture involved—couldn’t be repressed. Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 Kurant is fascinated by moments in which new developments — the agricultural revolution, the invention of writing, the advent of electricity — transform humanity, rewiring both individual brains and the collective unconscious.New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 Yet each is engaging and most have a political dimension worthy of consideration, reminding us that artists often voice a nation’s or an era’s collective unconscious. Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 June 2021 So now other parts of the brain that are more aligned with the collective unconscious, maybe spirituality, those parts are coming forward. Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021 See More