primordial soup

plural primordial soups

1. countableinformaluncountableevolutionary theoryThe state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
2. countablefigurativelyuncountableA collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.

   While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration.

   1995, Nikolaos Zahariadis, Markets, States, and Public Policy, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN

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   Freud would place in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress identification with universal archetypes.

   2018, Vladimir Mirodan, The Actor and the Character, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN