ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung describes the collective unconscious as ‘a second psychic system of a collective, universal and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals’. Dreams operate in an altered state of consciousness and express themselves in a logically abstract way, often in the language of symbolic image, allegory, parable, metaphor and simile. Film futuristics is a critical, action-orientated methodology that can be used to unpack the hidden dimensions and prospective probabilities within films and make the resulting knowledge and insight available to future planning. The concern with fanatics, psychotics and neurotics is important to film futuristics, because the psychologically affecting and emotional power that exists around them leads inexorably toward the unexploded landmines of culturally unconscious complexes. The emergence of a theory of cultural complexes suggests that an ‘understanding of the individual psyche through its consciousness will not be enough. The group itself will need to develop a consciousness of its cultural complexes’.
