Overview
- Provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD)
- Discusses the challenging interplay between sophisticated abstract concept of a holist-dynamic understanding of psyche and the concrete human experience
- Presents topical realities at the core of Brazilian research agendas and their interconnections with significant questions in Cultural Psychology
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science (BRIEFSPCDS)
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This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science. It discusses the challenging interplay between the sophisticated abstract concept of a holistic-dynamic understanding of the psyche and the concrete human experience. Chapters begin by framing the specific topics discussed in the book and elaborating on the border “zone” in between individual and collective-societal meanings. Subsequent chapters and a final conclusion discuss CPSC as an abstractive conceptual enterprise.
The book is divided into sections, each beginning with a chapter written by Jaan Valsiner. The individual sections focus on (I) the nature of psyche as a semiotic constructive process; (II) the primacy of affect as semiotic constructive processes, highlighting the role of the sublime as a border between mundane and aesthetic experience; and (III) the ambivalent core of the human mind, marked by the constructive and destructive semiosis for encountering the sublime as locus of novelty emergence.
Cultural Psychology as Basic Science will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and professors in the fields of psychology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and research branches of the social sciences.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Human Psyche
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Ambivalence as a Norm for Encountering the Sublime
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria C.D.P. Lyra is a Professor of Psychology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is interested in the process of human cultural development, the dynamic features through which human beings faces change and stability throughout their lives. She received her M. A. at Cornell University, U.S.A. and her Ph.D. at São Paulo University, Brazil. She coordinates a research laboratory – LabCCom – dedicated to the study of the process of emergence and development of the subject (self) in and through communication, concentrating on its microgenetic transformations embedded in sociocultural milieu. Culture and sign dynamics are particular relevant to explore diverse themes through reconstructive memory and imagination highlighting the process of internalization/externalization. She co- edited, “Determinism and Indeterminism in Developmental and Social Science” (Lawrence Welbaum, 1997), “Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences” (Springer, 2009), “Challenges and Strategies for Studying Human Development in Cultural Contexts” (Firera & Liuzzo Publishing, 2009), and presently “Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future” with Brady Wagoner and Alicia Barreiro (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018/19).
Marina Assis Pinheiro is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She coordinates the research group Psychology of Creative Processes. She is especially interested in the following subjects: creativity and imagination, art and psychology, language and subjectivity, culture and singularity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Psychology as Basic Science
Book Subtitle: Dialogues with Jaan Valsiner
Editors: Maria C .D. P. Lyra, Marina Assis Pinheiro
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01467-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01466-7Published: 13 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01467-4Published: 30 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 122
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Self and Identity, History of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Semiotics, Cross Cultural Psychology