Meaning of psychotopology | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The psychological dimension of place; the impact of the physical environment on one's emotional and mental state; psychogeography.
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2. The pattern or structure of mental processes.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop⟳ a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified.”

“But, in its particular mixture, perhaps this anthology makes a contribution towards the 'psychotopology' suggested by Bey: a way of finding sweet-spots, 'hidden enfolded immensities that escape⟳ the measuring rod', in the maps of networked reality being drawn up at the moment.”

“Anarchist author Hakim Bey's notion of psychotopology does not attempt⟳ to fully incorporate or understand⟳ a territory as an ideology of presence, but is instead used to suggest⟳ a movement toward certain gestures that respond⟳ to the features of Augé's placelessness.”

“Tangential but very important to this paper is Maruyama's persuasive argument that there are prevailing structures of reasoning or "psychotopologies" that interpretively create⟳ both the objectivity and the relevance of all matter⟳ of inquiry.”

“These differences, and difficulties in communication they cause, inspired M. Maruyama to elaborate his psychotopology.”

“Three types of works led to the present⟳ development of psychotopology: (1) those which show⟳ that there are different types of logics and that the choice between them depends on extralogical factors (factors independent of and beyond any logic); (2) those that deal⟳ with the problem of communication between different types of logics; (3) those that discuss⟳ individual capacity to transcend their present⟳ logic and invent⟳ new types.”

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