collective unconscious
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[edit]Noun
[edit]collective unconscious (plural collective unconsciouses)
- (psychology) The common experiences, thoughts and opinions of a large group of people taken as a whole.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Cipher Codex entry:
- It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.
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[edit]experience of human species
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