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racial unconscious

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noun

  1. psychol another term for collective unconscious

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The racial unconscious emerges; what is heterogeneous is submerged in what is homogeneous.

From Project Gutenberg

"One must refine the magical sense of things," he said, and the symbols and signs he created�a scribble for a bird, a bristle of lines for a star, a target for a breast�were images deeply lodged in the racial unconscious.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive