vb (mainly tr) , -strues, -struing or -strued. 1. to interpret the meaning of (something): you can construe that in different ways. 2. (may take a clause as object) to discover by inference; deduce. 3. (Grammar) to analyse the grammatical structure of; parse (esp a Latin or Greek text as a preliminary to translation) 4. (Grammar) to combine (words) syntactically.
The collective unconscious is a term coined by psychoanalyst Carl Jung and refers to the unconscious mind shared by all of humanity. It is composed of archetypes, which are simple representations of universal figures and relationships.
(August 2012) Collective memory is the shared pool of knowledge and information in the memories of two or more members of a social group. The English phrase collective memory and the equivalent French phrase la mÃ©moire collective appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century. The philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs analyzed and advanced the concept of the collective memory in the book La mÃ©moire collective. Collective memory can be shared, passed on, and constructed, by large and ...