collective unconscious

English

Noun

collective unconscious (plural collective unconsciouses)

1. (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.

Translations

experience of human species

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集體潛意識／集体潜意识

• Czech: kolektivní nevědomí n
• Dutch: collectief onbewuste n
• Finnish: kollektiivinen alitajunta
• French: inconscient collectif (fr)
• German: kollektives Unbewusstes n
• Russian: коллекти́вное бессозна́тельное n (kollektívnoje bessoznátelʹnoje)
• Spanish: inconsciente colectivo (es) m
• Turkish: kolektif bilinçdışı