Psychological Impact And People Mindset

Introduction
Common people tend to get overwhelmed with the physical factors including the image
and measurement of a building in the urban places as stated by Colin Ellard (2005). According to
the statement people neglects the psychological impact of this kind of environments. Space has a
mental impact upon the mindset of an individual. Mental impact refers to emotional
transformation or initiation of specific behaviors.
The essence of the urban locality directs towards removal of enormous historical strata.
For instance, the unconscious memory is the place to generate condensation and substitution of
meaning considered as a written parchment piece of the urban parchment. The example of
geographical study can also be used in this regard. It utilizes the study of impacts of natural
forces including the soil composition, condition of the climates depending on the social and
economic construction, and also the psychogeographic studies incorporating the natural and
artificial geographical environment. The concept of psychogeography considers the mood of the
location as its primary focus. This field of studies deals with the aspects such as conflicts
between the urban places, overcrowding and related confusion, self-consciousness as an
outcome, and reversely decreasing the senses. Hence, psychogeography can be termed as
transcendent reflection that observes the memory of space.
As a mental record there are psychogeographic maps for the geography of urban areas
that are created in accordance with the methodology of psychogeography. There is no connection
between psychogeography and cartography from scientific or objective perspective. The factual
profile of any geographical environment is less important than the conducting pattern of the
psychogeographical map. Hence, it can be said that this discipline of study is the process to
visualize the psychological areas. To put is simply, it can be said that this topographical map

presents the psychological areas that are usually invisible by the biological eyes. Traversing the
urban place is situated at the core of the psychogeographic studies. There is a possibility to
consider the concept of urban space as a matter to be taken for granted. However, the interesting
part of this domain is the process of handling the nature which is a debatable topic for many
researchers. It provides a clear indication of being ideological in nature. As a matter of fact,
every individual city and town has unique nature of demarcations, gang of territories, sub-
cultural gang, and gang of religious territories. Consequentially, the architecture planning never
considers a place as isolated.
As a matter of amaze, it is interesting to state that the presence of psychogeographic maps
are observed in the historical maps also. The only difference is that it contains ancient cultural
features of every country instead of using the detailed and precise database system as used by the
recent maps.
According to the history, there were no scientific process of creating map during the
ancient period of time. The ancestors used to travel across the world and note down all the
visible routs and sceneries on a big piece of paper that was considered as a map. For example,
Guy Debord mentioned in the ‘derive (drift)’ theory, mentioned that a map can be created by
walking aimlessly across the city and documenting all the physical facts of a specific place.
Korean study used to incorporate this perspective of psychogeography in their map creation.
However, there are some difference between the ancient created maps and the contemporary
maps of South Korea. The recent psychogeographic maps of South Korea used to use the direct
feeling of thought and beliefs and emotions of the community within the map. Along with this,
the Korean people used to add their own symbols and signs within the maps reflecting the own
political areas. This is a peculiar habit of Korean people and all the Korean maps provides the

reflection of various characteristics unique for different political places of that time. They use
their own technology to copy the maps for example for the map of Jung Ho Kim they used Dae
Dong yeo Jido.
Hence, the following discussion is based on the analysis of old South Korean maps with
the exploration of features of psycho-geography and its use.
Psychogeography and derive
The formative situationist international from the initial part of 1950 could still take the
significant inequality of Paris for granted. They used the psychogeographic drift to create the
maps. Following these mass desire and instinct the South Koreans used to practice the
exploration or urban wandering.
As mentioned, Debord in the ‘In a derive (drift)’ mentioned that, a person can drop the
planning of movement and action or leisure performance by being amazed by the terrains the
person encounter there. During the earlier phase of nineteenth century, a person who saunters
around to observe the surrounding society was termed as flâneur, which is mentioned in the
works of Charles Baudelaire. The drifter was found deterred by the homogenizing modernization
instead of being propelled by the unscheduled journey viewing the complexity of the geography
and aestheticism of society positioning as a reverse nature of the flâneur.
As mentioned by Debord, every society that belong to the dominance of productive
condition, the population is appeared as extremely large accretion of spectacles. Every individual
thing that belong to their lives reflect in their minds also.
The degenerated characters claimed that, distinguish of labor and leisure is similar to the
interrelation of goods and consumption. The reconciled visual image of the human lives were