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racial unconscious

noun

  1. psychol another term for collective unconscious

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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"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.

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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