primordial soup

Noun

primordial soup (countable and uncountable, plural primordial soups)

1. (informal, evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
2. (figuratively) A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.
   • While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration.1995, Nikolaos Zahariadis, Markets, States, and Public Policy, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN
   • Freud would place in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress identification with universal archetypes.2018, Vladimir Mirodan, The Actor and the Character, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN