I Activate You To Affect Me (eBook)

Carlos Cornejo, Giuseppina Marsico, Jaan Valsiner (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
323 Seiten
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
9781641130721 (ISBN)

Infos

The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. The chapters here included explore the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of affectivating originally introduced by one of us (Valsiner, 1999), as a potential tool of inquiry into the affectivesensitive dimension of psychological life within a culturalpsychological framework. The concept of affectivating involves two psychological dimensions often undervalued or even obliterated from contemporary cultural psychology, namely the affective involvement and the agentivity of people in their social encounters.

Through several examples ‘feelingathome’, silence spaces and rituals, memorials, music and poetry, among others we show individual’s concrete actions in mundane everyday life aim to give an affective personal sense to the world around. This focuses on the primary affective nature of human meaning construction that guides the person in one’s continuing feelingintotheworld.

At a theoretical level the notion of affectivation challenges contemporary Cultural Psychology to rescue subjectivity, not only symbolism. Affectivation propounds a return to the long, but partially forgotten, organismic tradition, represented in the history by thinkers like Wilhelm Dilthey, Jakob von Uexküll and Kurt Goldstein. Cultural psychology has to bring semiosis back to the vital background of human experience.

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The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. The chapters here included explore the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of affectivating originally introduced by one of us (Valsiner, 1999), as a potential tool of inquiry into the affective-sensitive dimension of psychological life within a cultural-psychological framework. The concept of affectivating involves two psychological dimensions often undervalued or even obliterated from contemporary cultural psychology, namely the affective involvement and the agentivity of people in their social encounters.Through several examples --'feeling-at-home', silence spaces and rituals, memorials, music and poetry, among others-- we show individual's concrete actions in mundane everyday life aim to give an affective personal sense to the world around. This focuses on the primary affective nature of human meaning construction that guides the person in one's continuing feeling-into-the-world.At a theoretical level the notion of affectivation challenges contemporary Cultural Psychology to rescue subjectivity, not only symbolism. Affectivation propounds a return to the long, but partially forgotten, organismic tradition, represented in the history by thinkers like Wilhelm Dilthey, Jakob von Uexkuell and Kurt Goldstein. Cultural psychology has to bring semiosis back to the vital background of human experience.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Series page 2
I Activate Youto Affect Me 4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5
Contents 6
CHAPTER 1: I Activate You to Affect Me 10
PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND AFFECTIVATING 20
CHAPTER 2: Affect, Semiotics, Volition 22
CHAPTER 3: Affectivating 40
CHAPTER 4: Affectivating Signs 56
CHAPTER 5: Commentary 80
PART II: EVERYDAY PHENOMENA AND AFFECTIVATING 86
CHAPTER 6: Everything Was [Not] Beautiful At the Ballet 88
CHAPTER 7: “Freedom is Not Free” 106
CHAPTER 8: Understanding Silence-Phenomena Through the Boundaries of Speech 134
CHAPTER 9: An Expressive Approach to Affect and Musical Experience 154
CHAPTER 10: Poetics of Affectivating 186
CHAPTER 11: Expressive Dimension of Human Experience and Affectivation Process 200
PART III: PERSON–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPAND AFFECTIVATING 208
CHAPTER 12: Affectivation 210
CHAPTER 13: Affectivating Home Environments 232
CHAPTER 14: Affectivating Environments in Creative Work 252
CHAPTER 15: Spaces, Sites, and Subjectivity 266
PART IV: BUILDING A GENERAL FRAMEWORKFOR AFFECTIVATING 280
CHAPTER 16: New Theoretical and Methodological Ways in the Study of Affectivating 282
CHAPTER 17: What is Affectivating? 290
CHAPTER 18: Conclusions 306
ABOUT THE EDITORS 314
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 316

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• ISBN-13: 9781641130721 / 9781641130721