Title: SYNOPTICS, part VI: synoptical analysis of the psychic field

Authors: Herbert Rauch

Addresses: Institute for Social Analysis, Schottenfeldgasse 25-27/533, 1070 Vienna, Austria

Abstract: Part VI of synoptics deals with a new model of the psychic field. This aims to provide a synoptic model to describe in simple form all psychic involvement in human behaviour. Such, it deals in a clear-cut way with the basic areas of 'covert behaviour', the inner (psychic) back-and-forth that one cannot really see, but by meticulously observing 'overt behaviour' one can conclude metaphorically in a hermeneutic approach toward a socio-psychology of behaviour, especially seen in the context of a method towards a psychosocial analysis of society. This approach starts with laying out, in rough metaphorical ways, the parts of the psychic field: the conscious, the suppressed area, and the scotomised themes (i.e., the part of the outside world which is not recognised in the conscious field) from which it is excluded by the mechanism of the reign of a 'quasi-absolute' (QA), marking each phase of the individual human life.

Keywords: synoptics method; social analysis; hypotheses; psychoanalysis; psychic field; social systems; challenge principle; scotomised; covert behaviour; psychosocial analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGENVI.2021.121001

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2021 Vol.20 No.2/3/4, pp.194 - 221

Received: 25 Oct 2020
Accepted: 03 Feb 2021
Published online: 21 Feb 2022 *

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