Semiotic synergies
The disruption of habituated thought that is unconsciously trying to establish a self-encapsulating security called meaning making – this is what a vision needs to be about when you are trying to understand psyche, culture, and their interplay, profoundly. Because meaning making tends to stagnate to emotionally contain the onslought of symbolic complexity in everyday life and therefore maintain the psychological boundaries of individual existence as if it were a cozy prison. But only the limitless space beyond mental representations and epistemological constructions sets up the intellectual life story for the courageous adventurer, where the unfiltered phenomena of the universe feed forward into incarnating the possibility for progressive meaning making.
Challenging each others minds is an intense human opportunity that helps the unconscious emerge and reveal itself in its unfiltered parameters of perception and understanding, a obligatory strain for us researchers to be met without fear. The treasure of enriching knowledge lies hidden in the dark to be captured collectively in the web of infinite flows of human subjectivities. How far and across can we think and connect back to what can be symbolically linked between each of us? Constructive imagination has an answer.
We as human beings let culture as such emerge through us – the artifacts of which penetrate every psychological construction and therefore can only be grasped best synergistically enabling individuals to create meaning that is continuously co-existing with alterity. Making and using signs – semiosis – is what allows reciprocal integration of the symbolic other to really understand phenomena successively by constructing axiomatic layers within and in-between each of us that might help generate holistic knowledge, which could be useful on a broader spectrum. And this is what we are aiming for.
Cultural catalysis
Cultural Psychology leaves behind the traditional causal thinking that has dominated the social sciences, and adopts – borrowing from chemistry – the general model of non-linear framework of catalysis. Human beings set up varieties of meanings giving sense to different life events, that bound persons’ meanings together – or break them apart – in the flow of human experiencing. Human life course is the continuous binding and un-binding of meaningful relationships with objects and persons in the environment.
Exploiting this natural amplifier of the collective mind and its overarching drive of constructivism by artificially evoking and intensifying this inherent dynamic within cultural think tanks, either mediates semiosis to emerge within disruptive patterns of thought – innovation – or moderates it through acceleration within established patterns of thought – elaboration. Thus, a laboratory of semiotic catalysis needs to be realized to provide the robust foundation to counterbalance the oscillating process to harness its power sustainably and safely channel it into the loops of meaning making that do not represent ideological dogmatism.
Methodologically controlled and combined iteration cycles within integrative approaches carried out by our research clusters serve as psychological test tubes to spark cultural reactions between scientific entities catalyzing the fusion of metapsychology and phenomenology into individually adaptable knowledge that reflects human life adequately. And this is our tool.