Beyond the Mind

Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64113-034-9
Verlag: Information Age Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 846 g

Reihe: Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development

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and well organize works and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will see the “step- by-step” elaboration over the years of new ideas, theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marsico, Giuseppina

Valsiner, Jaan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Desire for Basic Science of Human Being
- SECTION I: Suffering for Science: Where Psychology Fails.
- Culture in Psychology: Towards the Study of Structured, Highly Variable, and Self-Regulatory Psychological Phenomena
- Science of Psychology Today: Future Horizons
- COFFEE BREAK 1: Is There any Reason for Suffering—for Science in Psychology?
- SECTION II: Understanding Dynamic Processes. Facing the Future—Making the Past: The Permanent Uncertainty of Living
- Constructing Identity: A Theoretical Problem for Social Sciences
- Reconstructing the Affordance Concept: Semiotic Mediation of Immediacy
- The Concept of Attractor: How Dynamic Systems Theory Deals With Future
- COFFEE BREAK 2: Why Are Dynamic Perspectives Hard to Take?
- SECTION III: Dialogical Nature of Being. The Promoter Sign: Developmental Transformation Within the Structure of Dialogical Self
- Temporal Integration of Structures Within the Dialogical Self
- COFFEE BREAK 3: Dialogical Semiosis in Irreversible Time—Why Make it So Complex?
- SECTION IV: Aesthetics of Infinities. The Raumaesthetik of Theodor Lipps as a Dialogical Research Program
- The Bare Back: Dialogical Self in Action
- Torturous Tension of the Real and the Unreal: Looking at Surrealist Paintings
- Dialogical Relationship Between Open and Closed Infinities
- The Flagellating Self
- COFFEE BREAK 4: The Sublime Movement Between Infinities
- SECTION V: Regulation in Societal and Interpersonal Processes.
- Culture Within Development: Similarities Behind Differences
- How Can Psychology in Japan Become a Well-Behaving Rebel?
- Culture in Human Development: Theoretical and Methodological Directions
- COFFEE BREAK 5: Why Developmental Science?
- SECTION VI: Cultural Processes Within Society.
- Civility of Basic Distrust: A Cultural-Psychological View on Persons-in-Society
- Higher Education in Focus: Insights Through the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
- Communication and Development: Breaking a Communion
- The Clicking and Twitting Society: Beyond Entertainment to Education
- COFFEE BREAK 6: Relating with Society—By Going Beyond the Practically Useful
- SECTION VII: Constructing Basic Human Science: Idiographic, Dynamic, Phenomena-Focused.
- Meanings of “the Data” in Contemporary Developmental Psychology: Constructions and Implications
- Listening to the Screaming Knowledge: Pathways to Quietude
- The Wissenschaft of Social Psychology: Paradoxes of Application of Science in a Society
- Failure Through Success: Paradoxes of Epistemophilia
- The Human Psyche on the Border of Irreversible Time: Forward-Oriented Semiosis
- COFFEE BREAK 7: Why Do Social Sciences Need to Be Basic?
- Conclusion: Psyche as a Cultural Membrane
- Biographical Notes.