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What is Psychological Immersion

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
As applied in the dramatic arts, psychological immersion is known as suspension of disbelief. In current cognitive research, it applies mostly to the psychic function called emotion and is defined mostly in terms of feeling associations. I use the term relative to the infinite field of the unconscious—including elements of all the Jungian functions—not just the emotions. Immersion is a process of temporarily expanding consciousness into areas of the unconscious—something like hypnosis, but retaining consciousness as one does in lucid dreaming states.
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Fostering Psychological Coherence: With ICTs
Stephen Brock Schafer (Digipen Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch002
Abstract
As we experience a paradigm shift into a media age, ICTs are altering the psychological parameters of human reality. The premise of this chapter is that the psychological dynamics of interactive images projected as Media Dreams correspond with the psychological dynamics of dream images as defined by Carl G. Jung. (Jacobi, 1973). If this is true, images in media dreams mirror patterns of energy and information in what Jung called the collective unconscious. Jung calls images archetypal representations or projections of archetypal energy patterns that are structured as metaphorical narrative. The most recent cognitive research (Lakoff, 2008) verifies that—indeed—the cognitive unconscious has the framework of metaphorical narrative and that these story patterns correlate with energy patterns in the nervous system. Jung also knew that dreams “have a purpose,” and that the purpose is “compensation” or harmonization of conscious and unconscious psyche. Jungian compensation is essentially the same thing as coherence, and recent research on coherence confirms that coherent states can be evoked with specific feedback technologies. Moreover, coherent psychological states increase emotional and perceptual stability as well as alignment among the physical, cognitive, and emotional systems. The authors’ hypothesis is that the images projected by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)—the media dreams of a population—are subject to psychological analysis in order to disclose unconscious sources of psychological stress in contextual collectives.
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Chapter 13
Designing an Ethical Structure for Social Influence Marketing (SIM)
As applied in the dramatic arts, psychological immersion is known as suspension of disbelief. In current cognitive research, it applies mostly to the psychic function called emotion and is defined mostly in terms of feeling associations. I use the term relative to the infinite field of the unconscious—including elements of all the Jungian functions—not just the emotions. Immersion is a process of temporarily expanding consciousness into areas of the unconscious—something like hypnosis, but retaining consciousness as one does in lucid dreaming states.
Published in Chapter: Designing an Ethical Structure for Social Influence Marketing (SIM); From: Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
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Chapter 9
Healing Cultural Personae With the Media Dream: Using Jungian Compensation to Foster ICT Coherence
As applied in the dramatic arts, psychological immersion is known as suspension of disbelief. In current cognitive research, it applies mostly to the psychic function called emotion and is defined mostly in terms of feeling associations. The author uses the term relative to the infinite field of the unconscious—including elements of all the Jungian functions—not just the emotions. Precisely, immersion is the process of being submerged in the cognitive unconscious but retaining a degree of consciousness as one does in lucid dreaming states.
Published in Chapter: Healing Cultural Personae With the Media Dream: Using Jungian Compensation to Foster ICT Coherence; From: Emerging Trends and Innovations in Privacy and Health Information Management
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