terra incognita

terra incognita
a) Land that has never been explored or mapped; uncharted territory.

The concept of the unconscious or an inner terra incognita, an unknown country of the psyche that precedes and predicates the Cartesian subject, the focal point of rational consciousness, was a revolutionary idea.

b) By extension, ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
See Also: incognition, virgin territory

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