psychotopology

Noun

psychotopology (countable and uncountable, plural psychotopologies)

1. The psychological dimension of place; the impact of the physical environment on one's emotional and mental state; psychogeography.
   • As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified.1983, Hunter B. Shirley, Mapping the Mind, page 112
   • But, in its particular mixture, perhaps this anthology makes a contribution towards the 'psychotopology' suggested by Bey: a way of finding sweet-spots, 'hidden enfolded immensities that escape the measuring rod', in the maps of networked reality being drawn up at the moment.2001, Annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
2. The pattern or structure of mental processes.
   • Tangential but very important to this paper is Maruyama's persuasive argument that there are prevailing structures of reasoning or "psychotopologies" that interpretively create both the objectivity and the relevance of all matter of inquiry.1981, The Tibet Journal - Volume 6, page 36
   • These differences, and difficulties in communication they cause, inspired M. Maruyama to elaborate his psychotopology.1998, Katarzyna Kaniowska, Danuta Markowska, Ethnology and Anthropology at the Time of Transformation, →ISBN