The term Psych ecology applies to a universe of patterns that can be mapped and navigated with the medium of symbolic language in its dramatic form. It is a term I use to elicit a metaphorical reality that incorporates the laws of Psyche, rhetoric, and ecology. The dynamic patterns of the Psych ecology are derived as well from principles of Hermetic philosophy, Gnosticism, physics, psychology, computer science, and systems theory. The term is meant to elicit the unified field of Psyche—dynamic thought forms and metaphorical-emotional resonance.
Published in Chapter:
Articulating the Paradigm Shift: Serious Games for Psychological Healing of the Collective Persona
Stephen Brock Schafer (Digipen Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0149-9.ch019
Abstract
The author’s hypothesis covers the following: neural processes are correlated with archetypal states of the cognitive unconscious, archetypes form a magnetic field and energy center underlying the transformation of the psychic processes into images, as in Jungian dream analysis, images can be used to access dimensions of the cognitive unconscious, and drama-based video games (DBG) constitute a dream analog that can be employed as a cognitive research instrument. Therefore, using a dramatic-metaphorical point of reference, deep states of the psychic unconscious can be interrogated using Jungian principles of dream analysis, the most recent research in the cognitive sciences, and the mathematics of recursion in order to improve understanding of higher order cognitive functions, to apply compensational content patterns to the global media, and to foster sustainable, coherent human values and behaviors.