The Media-Dream Model
S. Schafer
Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies 2019 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9065-1.ch009 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that no absolute reality exists for humans and that each person lives in a "perceptual fiction," in which unconscious archetypal quantum patterns are projected into consciousness as what Jung called "archetypal representation." Proposes that the science fiction genre functions as a prospective dreamscape that predicts cultural futures and formats psychological motives and morality, potentially revealing the psychological dynamics of a paradigm shift into illusion. |
Abstract
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.