How to Use collective unconscious in a Sentence

collective unconscious

noun

• That cry echoes down 2,500 years of history, out of the collective unconscious.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• His core belief is the collective unconscious, and that ties in really well with quantum physics, and all of the sciences.
  — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2020
• The were already seared into the Spurs’ collective unconscious.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• It’s as though the film is a collective unconscious where ideas and themes tumble about and bubble to the surface via different modes of expression.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2022
• But the fascination that has greeted the monolith these past few weeks feels significant, the sign of a jolt to the collective unconscious.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Sometimes a dress worms its way into the fashion world’s collective unconscious.
  — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 12 Sep. 2017
• The nightmares of an age, its terrors and secret ambitions, seep out of the collective unconscious in storytelling.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• If, for decades now, true crime served as the collective unconscious of so many women, all the taboo topics the culture as a whole represses, what happens when the culture is unable to repress them any longer?
  — Megan Abbott, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• In other words, Bond is a reflection of the collective unconscious idea of badassery, personified.
  — Paul Schrodt, Vulture, 23 June 2023
• So now other parts of the brain that are more aligned with the collective unconscious, maybe spirituality, those parts are coming forward.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
• Mythology opens the way to the Jungian theory of libido, to the theory of the collective unconscious, to the theory of psychic energy.
  — Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Rivers emptying into vast oceans, the wide unknowable of the collective unconscious.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 6 Mar. 2023
• But if the collective unconscious is drawing from different points of reference, things can get awkward.
  — Brandon R. Reynolds, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Jan. 2018
• Sarah unravels — though the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious does turn out to be an essential element.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• Carl Jung thought the experience was related to the collective unconscious.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2021
• The whole of it is like stepping into a time machine that goes in both directions at once: to the not-so-distant past of analog America and to a post-apocalyptic, post-human world that seems to reside in the collective unconscious.
  — Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Out of these diverse histories, shared motifs emerge, like recurring dreams in a collective unconscious.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• So trauma sank back down into the collective unconscious once more, only to reemerge after a defeat inflicted on U.S. forces that—because of all the asymmetries of force and culture involved—couldn’t be repressed.
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• And it is driven by an effort to sanitize our collective unconscious, to make our fascination with this dreamlike image express virtues such as compassion and hope.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• It is implanted deep in the Indiana collective unconscious.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2021
• Rather, each generation invents new yokai, many of them channeling a collective unconscious of present-day anxieties.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• And although there's every reason to think that this latest tragedy will recede into our collective unconscious like the seemingly countless others that have preceded it, something feels different this time.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2018
• Psychologist Carl Jung developed the concept of archetypal symbols as part of his theory of the collective unconscious.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 11 July 2019
• For the surrealists, the operations of chance and random events coincided with a belief in a collective unconscious that drives and motivates our reality.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• The fashion audience has never been more sophisticated, and designers are having a blast mixing and mashing ideas — and mining our collective unconscious.
  — Rebecca Ramsey, The Cut, 7 Feb. 2018
• These are the universal characters that reside within our collective unconscious.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The surreal and disturbing imagery, the unforgettable performances, and the film’s hypnotic rhythms have woven their way into our collective unconscious and have gotten profoundly stuck there.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2019
• These visionary fish have unparalleled access to the collective unconscious through their clairvoyance and make incredible artists and creatives.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 31 July 2020
• The record kept coming back, each holiday season, year after year, insinuating itself onto radio playlists, drifting down department store aisles, lodging in the world’s collective unconscious like no Christmas song in at least half a century.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Yet each is engaging and most have a political dimension worthy of consideration, reminding us that artists often voice a nation’s or an era’s collective unconscious.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 June 2021

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024