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.
Psychic contents that belong not to one individual but to a society, a people or the human race in general. (See also collective unconscious, individuation and persona.) The conscious personality is a more or less arbitrary segment of the collective psyche. It consists in a sum of psychic factors that are felt to be personal [âThe Persona as a Segment of the Collective Psyche,â CW 7, par. 244.]