Ur-mind

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"[…] 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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