FEELING TONE-CURVES

From Fabulous Loop de Loop

ANNOTATION:
|...| Lydia Liu, The Freudian Robot

Carl Jung used a galvometer in his "word association" experiments (1907), which registered the response to lowering of electrical resistance in the body; here “feeling tone curves” are recorded on a roll of paper. As each word was uttered a stop-watch would record the response and the next word would follow. The result was a series of lines forming “peaks” and troughs which together could be read as patterns of behaviour. Jung concluded "“The unconscious is an autometer” [1]

ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENTS–MODALITIES

ANNOTATING:
|...| Lydia Liu The Freudian Robot

Jung’s Association Experiments of 1907. (In common with Shannon, Pierce and Bavelas' games)

Require response to

written and verbal symbols

randomness and chance

require production of symbols

identification of patterns

time constraints (in most cases)

use of devices or machines[2]

  1. Liu, The Freudian Robot p20
  2. Lydia Liu The Freudian Robot