I Activate You To Affect Me (Paperback)

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 Uexkull and Kurt Goldstein. Cultural psychology has to bring semiosis back to the vital background of human experience.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Annals of Cultural Psychology
Release date:	2018
Editors:	Carlos Cornejo • Giuseppina Marsico • Jaan Valsiner
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-64113-070-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	1-64113-070-9
Barcode:	9781641130707

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