Psychogeography and collective traumatic memories
In terms of psychogeography, I would like to refer to Debord’s account, “Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals”. For me, this viewpoint accounts for the relationship between geographical environment and human beings’ emotion or (un)consciousness. As I mentioned in my response of sound walk, the psychogeography is a threshold of linking the discussion from landscape to mindscape.
In Chinese, people do believe Feng Shui (please read Chia-Fen’s response below) in daily life. And it affects people’s life style a lot in most Chinese-speaking areas. In addition to Feng Shui, I would like to figure out that some historical sites particular the ones which the wars or genocides have been happened are related to the concept of psychogeography. For example, the Auschwitz is a site which reminds most Jews’ collective traumatic memories. Therefore, Jews’ mindscapes of viewing Auschwitz must be different from the other races’ mindscapes. Hence, the concept of psychogeography will help us to review the relationship among sites, landscapes, human (un)consciousness and traumatic memories.