The phrase "a complex notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing intricate or multifaceted ideas or concepts in various contexts, such as academic writing or analytical discussions.
Example: "The study explores a complex notion of identity that encompasses cultural, social, and personal dimensions."
Alternatives: "a multifaceted concept of" or "an intricate idea of".
Bacon has a complex notion of grammar.
And against the mainstream tradition, "The word God, in Scripture, never signifies a complex Notion of more Persons (or Intelligent Agents) than One; but always means One Person only, viz., either the Person of the Father singly, or the Person of the Son singly" (155, original emphases).
More-modern psychodynamic theories have moved away from the idea of explaining and treating neurosis on the basis of a defect in a single psychological system and have instead adopted a more complex notion of multiple causes, including emotional, psychosexual, social, cultural, and existential ones.
Intertextuality is, of course, a complex notion, related in the literature to a number of different objects of study, but ultimately it is intertextuality, or 'transtextuality' to adopt Genette's (1997) more technical term which is central to the concerns of this paper and the analysis of invoked attitude.
JRR Tolkien referred to his invention of The Lord of the Rings as the creation of a 'true myth' - and to accept the need we have for myth as well as science is to allow a more complex notion of truth than mere correspondence to empirical facts.
Thus, a more complex notion of the lived experience of transnationalism emerges.
To simplify a complex notion, legitimacy is that attribute of individuals and institutions that causes their instructions to be obeyed.
Spatiality appears in the problem as neighboring relations among the settlements and as spatial scales, while the concept of connectivity is a complex notion which can be quantifiable or non-quantifiable.
The show is, for the most part, punchy to look at (painting dominates), full of ideas and, with the intriguingly complex notion of a "post-black art" in the air, completely of this American moment.
To be clear, a variety of characteristics feed into the complex notion of effeminacy style, mannerism and gender roles, just to name a few.
— gets at the complex notion of victimhood that runs through Mr. Polanski's cinema, and through aspects of his biography, from Holocaust survivor to grief-stricken widower to accused rapist.
