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collective unconscious

noun col·lec·tive unconscious \kə-ˈlek-tiv-\

Medical Definition of COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

:  the genetically determined part of the unconscious that especially in the psychoanalytic theory of C. G. Jung occurs in all the members of a people or race

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