collective unconscious en · NOUN
Meanings
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The common experiences, thoughts and opinions of a large group of people taken as a whole.
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.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Cipher Codex entry:
Forms
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| collective unconsciouses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (11)
cmn 集體潛意識 /集体潜意识 (experience of human species) · fr inconscient collectif (experience of human species) · es inconsciente colectivo (experience of human species) · ru коллекти́вное бессозна́тельное (experience of human species) · cmn 集體無意識 /集体无意识 (experience of human species) · tr kolektif bilinçdışı (experience of human species) · nl collectief onbewuste (experience of human species) · hu kollektív tudattalan (experience of human species) · de kollektives Unbewusstes (experience of human species) · fi kollektiivinen alitajunta (experience of human species) · cs kolektivní nevědomí (experience of human species)