ABSTRACT
As exciting as exploration of the unconscious can be, it must be recognized that after intense scrutiny of the psyche's images and energies one may be left with a massa confusa, that is, a collection of images and memories that have great potential for new life and revelation but no discernable shape or pattern. Map-making is a function of this need and the resulting cognitive activities that follow. It seems that maps of an ordered cosmos are found in cultures of all types and times. A sense of order seems to be needed at a deep and universal human level. A map of the known elements within a given terrain also depicts the relationship among the various objects to one another within that domain. Like cosmographic maps, psychographic maps show the relation of individual objects to one another and depict a "whole", which in this case is a picture of the inner world of the psyche.
