Beyond the Mind
Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche
1st Edition
Published on 4. January 2018
563 pages
978-1-64113-036-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format. That's why it requires an unusual look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades.
This man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort of elaborating ideas while going in different places as invited keynote. This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, which touches several places and several and interconnected topics.
This book is about the "minutes" of his "bigger" and well organize works and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will see the "step- by-step" elaboration over the years of new ideas, theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes very much-maybe especially as he claims basic inability to draw anything).
This man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort of elaborating ideas while going in different places as invited keynote. This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, which touches several places and several and interconnected topics.
This book is about the "minutes" of his "bigger" and well organize works and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will see the "step- by-step" elaboration over the years of new ideas, theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes very much-maybe especially as he claims basic inability to draw anything).
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Content
- Cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Desire for basic science of human being
- Cultural psychology: a new science of the human nature
- A glimpse into the book
- Note
- References
- Section I: suffering for science: where psychology fails
- 1: Culture in psychology
- Abstract
- The current state of the enterprise(a subjective overview by a caregiver)
- Consolidation in the 1990s
- Making histories: psychology's self-reflection reconsidered
- Four foundations for the study of complex cultural phenomena in the 19th century
- Psychology, homo sapiens, and the inevitability of culture
- What about a science of prediction and control of behavior?
- Implications for research process: mutuality of meaning construction
- Making of a new psychology: methodological directions
- Science is one, and it is universal
- Variability of psychological forms is the center of inquiry
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 2: Science of psychology today
- Abstract
- How insisting on the purity of the scientific method defies wissenschaft
- A semiotic perspective: facts are signs
- Data as signs: signifying what?
- Distance from the phenomena created by the data
- Psychology as a migrant-consequences of history
- Migration of ideas-and the opportunities for psychology in japan
- Contrasting methodological trajectories
- Horizon one: future in hierarchically structured and dynamic views
- The elegance of complex processes
- Horizon two: focus on emerging structures-multiple trajectories
- TEM and processes of development
- Horizon three: movement towards the idiographic focus in psychology
- Negotiating new horizons: psychologists in their social worlds
- Becoming public: between communication and commodity
- General conclusions: future is being made today . . .every day
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 1: is there any reason for suffering- for science in psychology?
- Notes
- References
- Section II: Understanding dynamic processes
- 3: Facing the future-making the past
- Asymmetry of past and future
- Where tem begins: structure of opposite possibilities
- The role of HSS in TEM
- Contemporary psychology through the lens of tem
- Notes
- References
- 4: Constructing identity
- Abstract
- Psychology's traditions of developmental analyses, and issues of identity
- Directed reflexivity settings as cultural vehicles for identity orientation
- Identity construction through fantasmic abstraction
- General conclusions: what can interdisciplinary research learn from developmental and cultural psychologies?
- Notes
- References
- 5: Reconstructing the affordance concept
- Abstract
- Relating with the environment: perceiving, distancing ,and acting
- Finding the critical object: from the hand to the handle
- Functional role of aesthetics in affordances
- Constructing dynamic sign hierarchies-and new affordances
- Conclusions: affordance needs to be viewed as having an open end
- Acknowledgment
- Notes
- References
- 6: The concept of attractor
- Abstract
- New focus: from points to trajectories
- What is attractor?
- Types of attractors
- The limit cycle attractor represents a closed trajectory in which the system will settle
- What is attractor basin?
- Changes in attractors and attractor basins
- The attractor concept brought into psychology
- Convergence of dynamic processes: ontology of attractors
- Freedom from the past: no functional History,but future direction
- Using time
- Complementing attractors: "repulsors" and "directors"
- Attractors within a dynamic dialogical self
- General conclusion: constructive dialogue between dst and dialogical self
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 2: why are dynamic perspectives hard to take?
- References
- Section III: dialogical nature of being
- 7: The promoter sign
- Abstract
- The structure of the dialogical self (ds) and its dynamics
- I-Positions on the move
- Heterogeneity of social suggestions, feeding into DS
- Meaning-making
- New theoretical language of ds-abstract thinking "in doubles"
- Relationships: formal models
- Integrating I-positions: the process of development
- High variability: between languages and within persons
- Representation of signs-nodes or fields?
- The self-in-relation as the universal case
- The temporal dynamics of DS
- Self-organization through semiotic mediation
- Difficulties of construction
- Regulating the subjective future: the promoter sign
- Microgenesis and ontogenesis, of distancing
- Conclusion: development as a quickly slow process
- Notes
- References
- 8: Temporal integration of structures within the dialogical self1
- Abstract
- Basic ideas in DS theory
- Integrating a different voice: from i-positions to we-positions, and beyond
- Going beyond the givens: generalization in irreversible time
- Roots of the dialogical self: from graz to nijmegen
- What happens at the boundary: how i-positions are reconfigured
- The boundary-as viewed by charles sanders peirce
- The a &&non-a boundary: a "dialogical membrane"
- General conclusions: semiotic regulation of i-positions configurations
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 3: dialogical semiosis in irreversible time-why make it so complex?
- References
- Section IV: aesthetics of infinities
- 9: The raumaesthetik of theodor lipps as a dialogical research program1
- Abstract
- Where are we?
- Object versus thing-contrast between gegenstand and ding
- This is a beggar && and here I am myself, facing the beggar
- Why gegenst and is the central focus for human psychology
- Psychology of architecture: the object world of primary importance
- From architecture to psychology: theodor lipps'phenomenological program
- The role of the other
- Lipps' typology of objects
- Lipps and raumaesthetik
- The end symbol (endigungssymbol)
- Psychology of columns
- Beyond raumästhetik: the dialogical extensions in the corinthian order
- General conclusion: the silent dialogue with oneself-stones in tension
- Acknowledgment
- Notes
- References
- 10: The bare back
- Abstract
- The skin and its covers: hair on the bare back
- Normativity as the root of dialogue
- The language of the image: vectors and volumes
- The end symbols of form
- Dialogical self through the semiotic skin
- Conclusions: from dialogues on the skin to theories about dialogicality
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 11: Torturous tension of the real and the unreal
- The power of painting
- Two directions of synthesis in meaning creation
- The crime-master of superrealism: angel planells
- A crime
- A game
- The hour between the crime and the game
- General conclusion: the perfection of the crime of surrealist painting
- Notes
- References
- 12: Dialogical relationship between open and closed infinities
- Abstract
- Attention guiding vectors (agvs) and their convergence/divergence flows
- The top ending of a building: the antefix
- Two infinities in forms: a silent dialogue
- Coordinating the dialogue of two infinities in architectural gestalts
- Simple objects in everyday life with dialogue of two infinities
- General conclusion: dialogically encoded umwelts
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 13: The flagellating self 1
- Abstract
- Art as evidence: dialogical self encoded into einfühlung into the object
- DST and explicit social dialogues: learning from dürer
- Dialogues with the whip: dst and self-flagellation
- History of internalizing flagellation
- The hedonistic cycle
- Hyper-generalized sign fields and "i-prisons"
- Creating the lingering futures
- Conclusion: bridging dynamic and structural foci in DST
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 4: the sublime movement between infinities
- References
- Section V: regulation in societal and interpersonal processes
- 14: Culture within development
- Abstract
- Cultural psychology as a branch of general psychology
- Who Is being studied in CP?
- Cultural psychology and developmental science
- Contrast of perspectives
- The "psychologist's fallacy"
- The developmental perspective
- Dynamic and hierarchical nature of development
- How are the levels linked?
- What does probabilistic mean in this model?
- The asymmetry of time: from past to future
- The focus on the boundaries
- Psychological boundary theories
- The semiotic turn in cultural psychology: regulation of the boundaries of the self//other and past//future
- Centrality of abstracting generalization
- How opposite meanings generate each other
- General conclusion: culture is in our immediate experience
- Notes
- References
- 15: How can psychology in japan become a well-behaving rebel?1
- Abstract
- Many ways of being a rebel
- Science as an eternal migrant: homeless in all of its homes
- The special case of japan: potentials and impotencies
- Japan, myself, and the ambiguity of innovation
- Benefitting from ambiguity: a case from history of physics in japan
- Unity of the objective and the subjective in science
- Cultural prisms for understanding science in japan (and elsewhere)
- Danger of pre-set exclusive oppositions
- The ambiguous nature of a society
- Primate research in japan: scientific benefits of strategic anthropomorphism
- "The kyoto school" and its negotiations
- Two ways to create a contrast: inclusive and exclusive separation
- Hierarchical orders: fixed, dynamic, and transformational
- The other side: epistemological limitation in psychology in japan
- General conclusion: is the "well-behaving rebel" already here?
- When a prophecy has failed . . . where is a new one?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 16: Culture in human development
- Abstract
- Presentation of experience by signs: static and dynamic perspectives
- Necessary indeterminacy in the semiotic mediation process
- Some examples
- Historical roots of the developmental-semiotic perspective, and extension
- Cultural organizers operate within the person's psychological system
- The social world is heterogeneous, and therefore ill-defined
- Similarity of theoretical construction: cultural and genetic regulators
- Open-ended sign construction and its implications :flexibility and redundancy
- Fruits of redundancy: relevance of ignoring
- Implications of ignoring: development is slow and conservative
- Implications for construction of methodology
- Final point: consistency in psychological thought
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 5: why developmental science?
- References
- Section VI: cultural processes within society
- 17: Civility of basic distrust
- Abstract
- The cultural nature of persons && society relationships
- Cultural psychology: focus on semiotic mediation
- Collective and personal cultures
- Active agency: the counter-messages game
- Duality within meanings
- Sign and counter-sign complexes
- Organization of the non-a field
- Transitions in social reality
- The notion of civil society extended
- Myths as collective-cultural constrainers
- Functions of myth stories
- Redundancy
- Staged public dramas: guidance of the feeling fields
- Promoting unconditional trust
- The central issue of basic trust and basic distrust
- Indeterminacy in meaning generalization
- Habits of talking
- Semiotic demand settings (SDS)
- The uncivility of human societies: participations in genocides
- Conclusion: society in tension between civility and noncivility
- Notes
- References
- 18: Higher education in focus
- The brave new world of training for consumption: the illusory freedom of choice
- The giants who are us
- Magic of participation
- A new kind of working class: the knowledge workers
- What happens in higher education: coordinating genres
- Conclusion: what do we learn?
- Notes
- References
- 19: Communication and development
- Abstract
- Introduction: "sharing" and the process of communication
- Myths as reflections of ambiguity, and communicative disambiguation
- Reduction of ambiguity through semiotic means: construction of "no doubt"
- "Ideological humanism" in psychology
- Communication as overcoming of communion
- Communication under conditions of distancing and inequality
- Goal-oriented nature of human conduct
- Example of goal-oriented changes in communicational positioning
- Human communication process as hypergame
- Formal elaboration
- Conclusion: communication as unity of flexibility and fixity
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 20: The clicking and tweeting society
- Abstract
- "The society"-a beautiful fiction
- A life-course example: loss of trust
- Trust in social upheavals
- Internalization of trust and avoidance of doubt
- Elaborated abstraction: from production to consumption-oriented "society"
- Hybridizing "the society"
- Social homogenization of heterogenized strata of society
- The escalating homogenizer: mass media as the maker of "infotainment"
- Ontologizing messages
- Summary: trusting "the society" while doing education?
- The bologna process: social guidance of science through higher education
- Creativity in a consumer society: how can higher education succeed?
- For what tasks is a university to prepare the young generations?
- Going ahead-beyond the "bologna process" and EHEA
- Acknowledgment
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 6: relating with society-by going beyond the practically useful
- Reference
- Section VII: constructing basic human science: idiographic, dynamic, phenomena-focused
- 21: Meanings of "the data" in contemporary developmental psychology
- Social construction of objectivity
- The realm of the data: a values-laden heterogeneous field
- Creating "figure"/"ground" distinctions
- Data viewed from representationist and operationist perspectives
- Construction of symbolic remove: levels of data reconstruction
- Consensual regulation of data construction and analyses
- Social processes that canalize the selection and use of these models
- Rule 1. aata are "collected" over time
- Rule 2. nature of the measurement scales can be ignored at will
- Rule 3. The data are presented as constituting a homegenous class (even when the heterogeneity within the data is used for their analyses).
- Mechanisms of overlooking
- Developmental psychology and construction of the data
- Implications for data construction
- Frames of reference
- Units of analysis of developmental processes
- Overlap between units
- Methodology as a process
- Social regulation of the methodology "cycle"
- General conclusions: data as symbolic capital . . .but what about basic knowledge in developmental psychology?
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 22: Listening to the screaming knowledge
- Abstract
- The widening field of "the literature"
- Who creates "the literature": basic disquietude of knowledge making
- From mythology of induction and (illusory) clarity of deduction to the disquieting experience of abduction-in-time
- General conclusion: from screaming knowledge to the music of knowing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Annex
- 23: The wissenschaft of social psychology
- Abstract
- Semiotic demand settings (sds) and talk about scientific knowledge
- Social psychology in the 20th century: between europe and america
- Methodology: from fragmentation to unity of knowledge
- Socially guided access to phenomena: autonomy of human beings
- Quo vadis: group consensus or new wissenschaft?
- Notes
- References
- 24: Failure through success
- Abstract
- Science under the microscope of social ethics
- Epistemogenesis and epistemophilia
- Two processes
- Maintaining and destroying
- The intergenerational relations in science: between filial piety and patricide
- Institutional intervention: directing the energies of the young
- General conclusions: peers, fathers and policemen
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 25: The human psyche on the border of irreversible time
- Abstract
- Roots of our troubles: reductionist ontologies and defining of the "evidence"
- Need for generic unit of analysis in psychology
- Escaping from harmony
- Collections in time
- The minimal gestalt as unit of analysis: the dynamic gegenstand
- The structure of gegenstand
- Setting the stage: the making of time
- The duration: contribution by henri bergson
- The universe in irreversible flow
- The purposeful nature of the mind
- How semiotic mediation works
- Models of semiotic mediation
- From generalization to hypergeneralization
- Summary: psychology with the focus on emergent variability
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Coffee break 7: why do social sciences need to be basic?
- Reference
- 26: Conclusion psyche as a cultural membrane
- The cultural dynamic of the psyche
- Exploring the potential of the membrane notion
- A little interdisciplinary excursion
- Psychological membranes
- Note
- References
- Biographical notes
