I just found myself providing a definition for ‘the cultural unconscious’ in a conversation, and thought to share it with you. I’m using ‘the cultural unconscious’ to refer to ‘the presence of habitual modes of meaning-making and social practices which emerged in a cultural historical process of which we have forgotten as a collective or never knew to begin with. These habits of thought, belief and social practice go largely unnoticed, and therefore unexamined.’
So, what is 'the cultural unconscious'?
So, what is 'the cultural unconscious'?
So, what is 'the cultural unconscious'?
I just found myself providing a definition for ‘the cultural unconscious’ in a conversation, and thought to share it with you. I’m using ‘the cultural unconscious’ to refer to ‘the presence of habitual modes of meaning-making and social practices which emerged in a cultural historical process of which we have forgotten as a collective or never knew to begin with. These habits of thought, belief and social practice go largely unnoticed, and therefore unexamined.’