Beyond the mind : cultural dynamics of the psyche

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Main Authors Marsico, Giuseppina (Author), Valsiner, Jaan (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018.
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Valsiner, Jaan.
Culture > Psychological aspects.
Psychology > General.
Psychology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608003
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-036-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 546 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Desire for basic science of human being / Giuseppina Marsico
  • Section I. Suffering for science: Where psychology fails
  • Chapter 1. Culture in psychology: Towards the study of structured, highly variable, and self-regulatory psychological phenomena / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 2. Science of psychology today: Future horizons / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 1: Is there any reason for suffering--for science in psychology? / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section II. Understanding dynamic processes
  • Chapter 3. Facing the future--making the past: The permanent uncertainty of living / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 4. Constructing identity: A theoretical problem for social sciences / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 5. Reconstructing the affordance concept: Semiotic mediation of immediacy / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 6. The concept of attractor: How dynamic systems theory deals with future / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 2: Why are dynamic perspectives hard to take? / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section III. Dialogical nature of being
  • Chapter 7. The promoter sign: Developmental transformation within the structure of dialogical self / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 8. Temporal integration of structures within the dialogical self / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 3: Dialogical semiosis in irreversible time--why make it so complex? / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section IV. Aesthetics of infinities
  • Chapter 9. The raumaesthetik of theodor lipps as a dialogical research program / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 10. The bare back: Dialogical self in action / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 11. Torturous tension of the real and the unreal: Looking at surrealist paintings / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 12. Dialogical relationship between open and closed infinities / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 13. The flagellating self / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 4: The sublime movement between infinities / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section V. Regulation in societal and interpersonal processes
  • Chapter 14. Culture within development: Similarities behind differences / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 15. How can psychology in Japan become a well-behaving rebel? / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 16. Culture in human development: Theoretical and methodological directions / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 5: Why developmental science? / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section VI. Cultural processes within society
  • Chapter 17. Civility of basic distrust: A cultural-psychological view on persons-in-society / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 18. Higher education in focus: Insights through the cultural-historical activity theory / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 19. Communication and development: Breaking a communion / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 20. The clicking and twitting society: Beyond entertainment to education / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 6: Relating with society--by going beyond the practically useful / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner
  • Section VII. Constructing basic human science: Idiographic, dynamic, phenomena-focused
  • Chapter 21. Meanings of the data in contemporary developmental psychology: Constructions and implications / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 22. Listening to the screaming knowledge: Pathways to quietude / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 23. The wissenschaft of social psychology: Paradoxes of application of science in a society / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 24. Failure through success: Paradoxes of epistemophilia / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 25. The human psyche on the border of irreversible time: Forward-oriented semiosis / Jaan Valsiner
  • Coffee break 7: Why do social sciences need to be basic? / Giuseppina Marsico and Jaan Valsiner. Conclusion: Psyche as a Cultural Membrane / Giuseppina Marsico. Biographical Notes.

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