ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a contextualisation of image-schemas, and the neurophysiological and phenomenological interconnection their formation and activation have with the mirror neuron system (MNS) and the storage of patterns of somatic states, which all operate in perception. United, these ‘structures’ and systems respond for the automatic completion of patterns of perception, action, and of emotional states, as if predicting the outcome of events. These are associated to the capacities that Jung placed on archetypes-as-such as analogous patterns of imagery that result from the selection, organisation, and storage of the data of experience that engender the individual’s disposition for exerting specific types of perception and/or behaviours that culminate in thematised fantasies and thinking processes, integrating experience in terms of archetypal patterns. It focuses on the ‘fine line’ between perception, action, and cognition, for they irradiate from mental representations, which predict understanding of events and actions to be undertaken, maintaining or altering the affective movingness that enlivened the triggering of them, through relativisation. Thus, it shows how individuals are bound to non-consciously find correspondence between contents of their inner lives and ‘evidences’ gathered from the external reality, in case they do not consciously abstract from the concrete grounding of their experiences.
