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ur-mind

ur-mind noun: the primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.

Noun

ur-mind (plural ur-minds)

  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.1942, William Allison Shimer, Phi Beta Kappa, The American scholar
    • […] 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.1989, Richard Ellmann, Susan Dick, Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum

Examples of ur-mind in a sentence

  • From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain.1999, Susan K. Perry, Writing in flow: keys to enhanced creativity:
  • This Ur-mind also contains information about the future, information available to everyone — but particularly the novelist.2003, Angela Hague, Fiction, intuition, & creativity:

Forms of ur-mind

pluralur-minds
alternative formur mind

Origin of ur-mind

From ur- (“original, primitive”) + mind.

Questions about ur-mind

What does ur-mind mean?
Ur-mind means the primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.
How do you use ur-mind in a sentence?
From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain.
What part of speech is ur-mind?
Ur-mind is a noun.
What is the plural of ur-mind?
The plural of ur-mind is ur-minds.

Words near ur-mind in the dictionary

  1. ur-heroes
  2. ur-homeland
  3. ur-homelands
  4. ur-language
  5. ur-languages
  6. ur-mind
  7. ur-minds
  8. ur-myth
  9. ur-myths
  10. ur-ocean
  11. ur-oceans

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