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What is The Media Dreamand the Dream Paradigm

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools
These are psychological constructs that postulate the idea that the symbolic-metaphorical narrative architecture of myth, Jungian dream analysis, and recent research on cognitive framing and Global Workspace theory can be synthesized in the medium of drama-based video games (DBG). Because they have the same structure, DBGs can simulate dreams in order to map the “territory” of the personal and collective unconscious for the purpose of understanding the potentials for psychological compensation as articulated by the media dream.
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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.
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