Ur-mind
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.
"[…] 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."
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From ur- (“original, primitive”) + mind.
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