REALITY PERCEPTION

From: Man and His Symbols (C G Jung)

This framework (Erhard Jacoby) illustrates the fact that each one of us, knowing the world through an individual psyche, acknowledges it a little different from each other. In this picture, the man, the woman and the child are looking at the same scene, but each one of them perceives different details that are shown in shades more or less clear or dark. Only through our conscious perception is that the world "out there" exists: we are surrounded by something completely unknown and impenetrable (represented by the second gray picture plane).

What is at stake here is that there is no fixed point of view, but indeed a point of view that evolves in a mobile way.

The whole modernist aesthetics revolves around this.

It is commented here because although it seems that McLuhan if not scientifically correct, he has a sound intuition about the effects of the perception of reality in the two cases, i.e., acoustic and visual.