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From Dream to Action - Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures (Hardcover)
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From Dream to Action - Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Cultural Psychology
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The ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its
importance among the higher mental functions. This collective
volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that
cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the
cultural-historical conditions of imagining. The authors develop
different theoretical and empirical works in which imagining,
planning, anticipating, remembering and acting are put in relation
with crucial moments of human existence, as early as birth and even
after death. The proposal of this volume emerged during a "kitchen
seminar" session at the III International Seminar of Cultural
Psychology in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil, 2017). The debate revolved
around the imaginative capability of human beings and the
possibilities to investigate this phenomenon in a new key. The
awareness that an innovative theoretical and empirical contribution
was needed to the understanding of imaginative phenomena in
everyday life led to the proposal of the book From Dream to Action:
Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. The book aims to talk to
different audiences: psychologists, sociologists, artists, teachers
and healthcare professionals, addressing a variety of life
experiences - such as imagining alternative futures when facing a
terminal illness, an adoption, a transplant waiting list, or the
choice to give up your musical instrument - mobilize multiple
dimensions of human psyche, from the basic emotions to the more
sophisticated higher mental functions. The constant effort is to
understand the psychological and sociocultural dynamics of each
event, and to contribute to the understanding of human imagining in
the area of semiotic-cultural psychology, dialoguing with
contributions from all the human and social sciences.
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