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Vision Quest: Recreating the Mountaineering Experience through Digital Media

Vision Quest: Recreating the Mountaineering Experience through Digital Media

Doug Emory
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466698918|ISBN10: 1466698918|EISBN13: 9781466698925
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9891-8.ch007
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Emory, Doug. "Vision Quest: Recreating the Mountaineering Experience through Digital Media." Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media, edited by Stephen Brock Schafer, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 180-196. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9891-8.ch007

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Emory, D. (2016). Vision Quest: Recreating the Mountaineering Experience through Digital Media. In S. Schafer (Ed.), Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media (pp. 180-196). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9891-8.ch007

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Emory, Doug. "Vision Quest: Recreating the Mountaineering Experience through Digital Media." In Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media, edited by Stephen Brock Schafer, 180-196. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9891-8.ch007

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Abstract

One source for consideration in the quest to develop media that are truly educational and therapeutic is to examine activities that rely on a high and prolonged sense of physical and psychological coherence. The concept of sense of coherence can be broadly defined as a view of life that allows people “to consider their external and internal resources, to identify and mobilize them, to promote effective coping by finding solutions, and to resolve tension in a health-promoting manner” (Mayer and Thiel, 2014, p.1), and is related to Jung's transcendent function—the removal of the separation between the conscious and unconscious mind (as cited in Campbell, p. 273). Paradoxically, enough, such an examination might profitably be directed toward activities such as extreme sports that, on their surface, appear to be primarily physical in nature.

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