Week Six: Revised Research Question and Current Bibliography

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My current research process has yielded a concrete
research question, and my sources provide helpful information
that will be used to build parallels between Jungian theory
and the deja vu phenomenon.


After a very helpful peer review and an equally helpful meeting with Professor Goeller, my current research question and working bibliography are as follows. Over time, I may revise my research question based on any further discoveries I make while analyzing my sources, but my main idea is what is currently portrayed. :)

Research Question:

    Are people more prone to experiencing deja vu if they are consciously aware of their own occurrences, just as Carl Jung theorizes people become more prone to synchronicities once they begin to recognize them?

Bibliography:

Cleary, Anne M., and Alexander B. Claxton. “Déjà Vu: An Illusion of Prediction.” Psychological Science, vol. 29, no. 4, Apr. 2018, pp. 635–644, doi:10.1177/0956797617743018.

Forrer, Kurt. “Synchronicity: Did Jung Have It Right?” International Journal of Dream Research, vol. 8, no. 2, Oct. 2015, pp. 152–163. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=111140906&site=ehost-live.

Forrer, Kurt. “The Dream as Posthypnotic Command.” Sleep and Hypnosis, vol. 19, no. 4, Yerkure Tanitim ve Yayincilik Hizmetleri A.S, 2017, pp. 83–88, doi:10.5350/Sleep.Hypn.2016.18.0126.

Forrer, Kurt. “‘To Test or Not to Test; That Is the Question.’: Is There a Way of Verifying the Validity of the Interpretation of Our Dreams?” International Journal of Dream Research, vol. 7, no. 2, Oct. 2014, pp. 153–169. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=118205053&site=ehost-live.

Jung, C. G. “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.” Synchronicity, Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. 1–2, doi:10.1515/9781400839162-003.

Kime, Philip. “Synchronicity and Meaning.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol. 64, no. 5, Nov. 2019, pp. 780–797. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/1468-5922.12546.

Lawson, Thomas T. “Synchronicity.” Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind, 1st ed., Routledge, 2008, pp. 177–201, doi:10.4324/9780429472701-5.

Micali, Stefano. “The Repetition of a Singularity: Phenomenology of Déjà Vu.” Philosophy Today, vol. 62, no. 3, Summer 2018, pp. 897–1007. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5840/philtoday20181130243.

O’Connor, Akira R., et al. “Novel Insights into False Recollection: A Model of Déjà Vécu.” Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1-3, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010, pp. 118–44, doi:10.1080/13546800903113071.

Wells, C., Moulin, C., Ethridge, P., Illman, N., Davies, E., & Zeman, A. (2014). Persistent psychogenic déjà vu: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 8(1), 414–414. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-414

Williams. Non-Designer’s Design Book, The. Pearson India, 2008.


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