Integration of the Personality

ProMICAD is based on the most culturally rich of all systems, namely the typology of Carl Gustav Jung. Recent developments of his main psychological functions (Thinking, Feeling, Sensation and Intuition) are used here as a basis for the interpretation of the colours and shapes. However, four different factors, derived from the directional placings of the colours, are mapped against the Jungian functions, namely Attitude, Work-style, Ambition and Character.

Evidence suggests a link between Jung's psychological functions and the effects of stimuli in the brain. It is assumed that peak stimulus colours and shapes affect the brain in a similar way that physical movement evokes SENSATION - impulses capable of creating a stream of movement passing from the dorsal thalamus to the internal capsule and to the corpus striatum. Similarly, it is also assumed that high stimulus colours and shapes affect the brain by eliciting a stream of gut FEELINGS - impulses passing from the ventral thalamus to the anterior thalamic nuclei and the gyrus cinguli. Moderate stimuli are likely to be more sympathetic towards cerebral networking and the stream of THINKING - impulses passing from the thalamus to the internal capsule and the cerebral cortex. And finally, low arousal stimuli may allow the somnagenous zone to remain composed, a condition conducive to the faculty of INTUITION.