ur-mind

Definitions

The primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.

Examples

“[…] whose deification of personal vision, whose wildly romantic glorification of the inner light⟳, first supplied Western thought with an imposing conceptual apparatus by which to justify⟳ its habitual excursions into the dark corners of the ur-mind.”

“[…] the non-specific 'deep structure⟳', a deep structure⟳ that presumably lies so far down in the ur-mind as to realize⟳ itself again and again in all forms of cultural activity, basket-making no less than myth-making, cooking no less than love-making.”

“From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind⟳, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain. Who knows? I ride⟳ horses a lot, and there's a lot that you feel⟳ coming from the horse when you're riding it.”

“This Ur-mind also contains information about the future, information available to everyone — but particularly the novelist.”

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