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.
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