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.
In Jungian psychology, archetypes are highly developed elements of the collective unconscious.ung first referred to these as primordial images â a term he borrowed from Jacob Burckhardt. Later in 1917 Jung called them dominants of the collective unconscious.. It was not until 1919 that he first used the term archetypes in an essay titled Instinct and the Unconscious.