How to Use collective unconscious in a Sentence

collective unconscious

noun
  • But there’s a collective unconscious there.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Sometimes a dress worms its way into the fashion world’s collective unconscious.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 12 Sep. 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
  • But the stock market, as the collective unconscious of investors, could register this shock in the coming days.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The were already seared into the Spurs’ collective unconscious.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
  • Those bizarre early outputs felt like glimpses into the collective unconscious of the internet.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That cry echoes down 2,500 years of history, out of the collective unconscious.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Rivers emptying into vast oceans, the wide unknowable of the collective unconscious.
    — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The nightmares of an age, its terrors and secret ambitions, seep out of the collective unconscious in storytelling.
    — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Cage has somehow not yet managed to worm his way into our collective unconscious, Dream Scenario is a cinch to seal the deal.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In other words, Bond is a reflection of the collective unconscious idea of badassery, personified.
    — Paul Schrodt, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • 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
  • Carl Jung thought the experience was related to the collective unconscious.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2021
  • 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
  • These are the universal characters that reside within our collective unconscious.
    — Yec, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Jung believed that these archetypes are part of the collective unconscious, shared by individuals across cultures and generations.
    — Dan Serard, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Chalice of Blood evokes the horrors of religious war without coming close to reviving our collective unconscious.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Saved Stories Few faces have burned deeper into the collective unconscious than Nicolas Cage’s.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The sun in Pisces is all about empathy, intuition and cultivating a connection with the collective unconscious.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These visionary fish have unparalleled access to the collective unconscious through their clairvoyance and make incredible artists and creatives.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 2 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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