These are in the nature of a holographic universe-- the infinite field of psyche-physics as “energy” in conjunction with the Jungian-cognitive functions of psyche as “information.” The media dream is the symbolic, semiotic, metaphorical projection of the collective unconscious by a contextual culture’s visual media—particularly film, television, the Internet, and video games. Like personal dreams, the media dream affords insight as to the achievement of psychic harmony in a culture. Psychologically, the media dream is a projection of the a-priori subjective psyche that is best defined in terms of Jungian functions and narrative-metaphorical cognitive framing. This holistic state seems to exist as a dramatic unity of being (enactive mediated correspondence) includes not only a dream-like illusion, the “world out there,” but the archetypal patterns—the Psychecology—that are synchronous with subatomic patterns (spin types) of “the world in here.” It is in constant movement and transformation based on the function of “mediation.” In its many forms, this mediation may be understood in terms of language including: mathematics (algorithms & Fourier transforms), symbolism, and the narrative architecture of metaphor and cognitive framing.
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.