racial unconscious

British

noun

psychol another term for collective unconscious

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He gives what he thinks was Joyce's answer: "By proceeding through what William James terms 'the stream of consciousness' to what Jung terms 'the racial unconscious,' beyond individual dreams to collective myth."

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