This investigation extends the insights of a previous paper on the Nicholas Young phenomenon as seen in dreams. The Young phenomenon constitutes a consistent occurrence in dreams: when the dreamer or protagonist traverses a geographical or topological demarcation separating two distinct locales (a spatial “translation”); this is immediately followed by a newly formed compromise formation pertaining to the same conflict but characterized predominantly by a regression in ego, superego or id functioning. The present paper documents the Young phenomenon in psychological conditions beyond dreams: in artistic creativity, religious participation, certain common cultural ceremonials and certain common figures of speech. The various instances indicate that the Young phenomenon occupies a special place in mental life. This prompts the explanatory hypothesis that a corresponding unconscious configuration exists outside conscious mental life; and that mental regression is required to bring it to manifest form. This suggests the possibility that other such unconscious configurations also exist outside conscious mental life.