The Dream Analog

2016 ◽  
pp. 40-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Structure Function ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Virtual Realities ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Sustainable Media ◽  
Electro Magnetic

Increasingly, human perceptions of reality are based on virtual illusions. This altered reality called the metaverse is dreamlike. If reality, the metaverse, and dreams are virtual illusions, the metaverse and dreams are real. This suggests that virtual realities may be analyzed according to Carl Jung's compensational dynamics of dream analysis. The objective of such analysis would be discovery of contextual (target group) meaning in unconscious dimensions. Such discovery could lead to the use of mediated biofeedback to engineer Earth-sustainable media content in order to promote coherent frequencies on correlated electro-magnetic scales. This chapter will emphasize the authenticity of research on the collective unconscious as projected into the metaverse. Based on fundamental correlations in structure, function, and purpose of dreams as defined by Carl Jung, drama-based video games can be understood as a genre that may serve as an unprecedented, interactive dream analog for purposes of cognitive research.

Designing an Ethical Structure for Social Influence Marketing (SIM)

2012 ◽  
pp. 252-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer ◽  
Thomas Palamides
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Cognitive Principles ◽  
The Media

Unprecedented advances in media technology have created the need to define ethics for a media-age ontology that combines the dynamics of physics and psychology. This unprecedented human reality has been called the media-sphere, and it appears to have all the dimensions and dynamics of dreams as defined by Carl Jung. Because of the dreamlike dynamics and structural dimensions of the media sphere, its psychological dynamics may be contemplated in terms of Jungian dream analysis which is intrinsically ethical. The Jungian model for dream analysis is structurally and dynamically consistent with the most recent discoveries in cognitive research. Because of its subjective, emotive, interactive integrity as defined by Aristotle’s dramatic unities, dramatic structure is a common denominator for the study of conscious-unconscious cognitive states. This chapter explores the ethics of social influence marketing (SIM) relative to the dynamics and standards of morality implied by cognitive principles of Analytical Psychology.

The Alchemical Body of Carl Jung

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-191
Author(s):  
Simon Cox
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Kundalini Yoga ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Quantum Revolution ◽  
Eastern Traditions

This chapter traces the subtle body concept through the work of Carl Jung, who is introduced to the idea by G. R. S. Mead’s theosophical books. After tracing Jung’s early engagement with the Orient, the chapter moves to an analysis of the subtle body concept in his work, specifically in his engagements with Eastern traditions: Daoism, Kundalini Yoga, and Tibetan Bardo Yoga. After examining Jung’s use of the subtle body concept in his translation-commentaries on Eastern texts, the chapter turns to how Jung incorporates the concept into his own psychology of individuation based on the techniques of active imagination and dream analysis. The chapter turns to Jung’s seminars on Nietzsche, where he presents the subtle body concept with a unique dose of critical reflexivity and Kantian rigor. It ends with Jung’s late-life speculation about a future where, following the quantum revolution and spitting of the atom, humans evolve into subtle body–dwelling creatures who occupy a world of psychical substance.

Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Virtual Realities

This chapter explores gothic elements encoded into the narrative and the very act of choice that govern video games. These elements both reinforce and expose the lie of rational choice that undergirds the neoliberal economy that saw games rise to media dominance. Videogames may be simulacra, but not just virtual realities: they are the uncanny symptom of how the neoliberal subject recognizes its own lack of identity. Games are thus the gothic double of the Enlightenment self, the prime image of the hollow American neoliberal consumer mass-marketed as self-fashioning individual.

scholarly journals The Appearance of Archetypes in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Reiten ◽  
Hilary Fezzey
Keyword(s):  
Carl Jung ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Ultimate Purpose

I researched what insight could be gained about the archetypes (images, color, characters) represented in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by analyzing these archetypes from the perspective of Carl Jung (1875-1961), an important figure in the field of psychoanalysis and an understudied theorist in the psychological scholarship written about Carroll’s works. Jung’s concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious in particular offer a fruitful way to interpret Carroll’s work. Using a Jungian psychological perspective, my essay argues that archetypes of water, the quest, the trickster, and the wise old man are present in this story, and then I outline their ultimate purpose. Through the Looking-Glass is a timeless tale that many scholars throughout history have analyzed in a variety of ways. As of today, there are over 200 scholarly articles on Carroll’s works. Some scholars have researched the publication and/or translation history of Carroll’s works, about which there is vast information. Many scholars have gone with the New Historicist approach, the most popular approach by far when it comes to Carroll’s works. Other scholars combine the New Historicist and psychological approaches or research Carroll’s works from a philosophical approach. Additionally, scholars analyze Carroll’s works from a psychological stance, the second most common approach. Though the psychological approach is a fairly common one, most scholars have chosen to emphasize Sigmund Freud’s theories instead of Jung’s. There are very few scholarly studies on Carroll’s works that employ a Jungian approach. Thus, my essay enhances the psychological scholarship on the novel. To further my findings and increase my understanding of Carroll, Jung, and their works, I read Through the Looking-Glass, a biography on Lewis Carroll, research about Victorian England, multiple books written by Jung regarding his theories of the collective unconscious, and a lot of the scholarship written about the novel.

scholarly journals Fairy-Tale Symbolism: An Overview

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Vaz da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Wilhelm Grimm

Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have pored over the problem of fairy-tale symbolism. Models sharing the nineteenth-century penchant for genetic inquiries have assumed that symbols are the survivals of archaic metaphors. Thus, Max Müller proposed that myths and fairy tales stem from obscured metaphors about solar phenomena; Sigmund Freud speculated that fairy-tale symbolism is the fossilized residue of primordial sexual metaphors; and Carl Jung submitted that symbols express immanent archetypes of the human psyche. Such early approaches assume that symbols convey fixed meanings, and they disregard the effects of folklore variation on meanings. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm did take variation into account. They conceived Märchen in terms of immanent blueprints incessantly recreated in myriad retellings, but they never tried to make sense of the themes by means of the variants. This path was taken by folklorists influenced by Freud. Alan Dundes proposed to harness tale variants to grasp symbolic equivalences, and he pioneered the study of folk metaphors. But Dundes focused on preset Freudian symbols, a trend that Bengt Holbek followed. To this day, the prospect of addressing fairy-tale symbolism beyond Freud’s assumption of fixed translations remains elusive. Nevertheless, the basic tools are available. Maria Tatar remarked that fairy tales are metaphoric devices, and Claude Lévi-Strauss pointed out that metaphors—in switching terms that belong to different codes—lay bare the broader semantic field underlying each transposition. Müller, Freud, Dundes, Tatar, and Lévi-Strauss variously glimpsed metaphoric patterns in tale variations. The time is ripe to synthesize these intuitions in the light of contemporary cognitive research on conceptual metaphor, so as to address the creative dynamics of symbolism in fairy tales.

Articulating the Paradigm Shift

2012 ◽  
pp. 352-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Energy Center ◽  
Cognitive Unconscious ◽  
Point Of Reference

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.

The Media-Dream Model

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-190
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Quantum Level ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychological Dynamics

We live in a world not of science but of science fiction. Like pixel patterns from unconscious software is projected onto a monitor, unconscious archetypal quantum patterns are projected as what Carl Jung called archetypal representation (AR). Projected images are then subject to the vagaries of personal perception, so it may be stipulated that no absolute reality exists for humans. Rather, each person lives in a perceptual fiction. According to Carl G. Jung, dreams are projections from quantum-level unconscious dimensions into the cognitive dimension of “consciousness.” In the language of dream analysis, Jung would have described the science fiction genre as a prospective (future-oriented) dreamscape of archetypal representations. In the media-dream model, quantum patterns are derived from research in cognitive neuroscience and physics. Contemplated as AR, the sci-fi genre is predictive of cultural futures and formats psychological motives and morality. Sci-fi has the potential to detect the psychological dynamics at work during the paradigm shift into a dreamscape of illusion.

scholarly journals A Psychoanalysis of Female Characters in the Novels Heat and Dust and Inside the Haveli : Function of Mother Archetype in the Characters of the Narrator and Geeta

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Deepali Jaiswal
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Mother Archetype

The psychoanalysts enhance our understanding of our consciousness, the self and self-identity. Psychoanalytic theory plays an important role in the comprehension of the fundamental condition of selfhood. The self is not an unified entity in psychoanalytical terms. Human subject emerges as an outcrop of the unconscious desire. After Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, a swiss psychologist is considered as an eminent contributor to psychoanalysis who theorized the concept of collective unconscious. The purpose of my study is to find out the presence of the collective unconscious and to analyse two female characters, The Narrator , from the novel Heat and Dust and Geeta from Inside the Haveli with the help of Jung's theory of  collective unconscious and mother archetype. In this research paper several theoretical concepts of  Carl Jung are used to analyse the female characters. Jung’s theories are applied during the analysis process such as personal conscious, collective conscious and archetypes. I would use qualitative method for the analysis of the characters of the Narrator and  Geeta. I would use important dialogues and incidents for the data collection for the analysis of the characters. The psychoanalytic study of the Narrator and Geeta shows that they both have collective unconscious. I would study the function of mother archetype in the life of the Narrator and Geeta

Textual Relations in Sūrat al-Kahf

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-186
Author(s):  
Hosna Abdel Samie
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Abrupt Transition ◽  
The One

This study aims to understand the textual relations within Sūrat al-Kahf – one of the longest suras of the Qur'an – in response to issues raised by the observations of the psychiatrist Carl Jung in his Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. In this work he expounds on the Qur'anic narratives present in Sūrat al-Kahf in the light of a symbolic and psychological reading, which seeks to link the stories of the ‘Companions of the Cave’, ‘Moses and al-Khiḍr’ and ‘Dhū'l-Qarnayn’ on the one hand and his archetype of the ‘New Age’ on structural and spiritual levels on the other. Furthermore, the Qur'anic text is repeatedly described as ‘lacking coherence, which is not uncommon in the Qur'an’, and Jung endeavours, to use his own words, ‘to account for this apparently abrupt transition’ between the stories in Sūrat al-Kahf.

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