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.
Several terms are used from social psychology:-. 1  Duality - the propensity to see everything in pairs, opposites which must inevitably be reconciled. 2  Collective unconscious - inherited patterns of thought which connect all humans. 3  Archetypes - characteristic roles and behaviour paradigms.