The phrase "collective image" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a shared or commonly held image or perception of something or someone by a group of people. Example: The politician's actions have greatly affected the public's collective image of him, leading to a decline in his approval ratings.
Mr. Voropayev called the portrayal a "collective image".
Sept. 11 is evoked in a collective image of grief and rage.
Every 20 seconds for two hours they hold a different card of colour to create a new collective image.
It worries more about the collective image of the chain than the fate of an individual owner.
In Britain, rituals of collective remembering tend towards the mythic, and in photography too, the collective image of the blitz is based on older, more iconic images.
The history of science and technology, especially in the west, has been about remaking the world in our collective "image and likeness", to recall the biblical phrase.
Static sonorities shifted, intangible events solidified; collective images began to appear amid shapeless sound.
The artist traced the animals' images on the reverse, and the four collective images provided him with four prototypes of animal "staffage" -- basically filler -- with which he populated his grand landscape paintings.
My teaching evaluations were full of comments on how the diagramming exercise was the best part of section and that the collective images were the most useful resource from section in writing their final exams.
Their collective images take us, step by step, from the moment Hector Petersen, a teenager, was killed by the police in the first anti-apartheid student uprising in 1976 to the day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela voted in the first democratic election.
Such a community of support may have negative consequences for collective body image and disordered eating identity.
