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Molina, M.E., Cornejo, C., Marsico, G., Valsiner,, J. (2022). Conclusions: Intimacy as unveiling issues in dichotomous thinking. In M.E., Molina, Cornejo C., Marsico, G., Valsiner, J. (Eds). Intimancy. The shared part of me. pp. 215-222, InfoAgePublishing.
No full textA potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm
Molina, M.E., Cornejo, C., Marsico, G., Valsiner, J. (2022). Intimancy. The shared part of me. P. 238, InfoAgePublishing
No full textThe concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one’s own body.
A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm
Cornejo, C., Marsico, G. & Valsiner, J. (Eds.). (2018). I Activate You to Affect Me”: Affectivating as a Cultural Psychological Phenomenon. In C. Cornejo, G. Marsico, & J. Valsiner (Eds.). “I Activate You To Affect Me”. Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 2, Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textThe 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 in-troduced 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.
Why this new term? And why dedicate a whole volume of the Annals to contributions that, in one way or another—use the term for some theoretical purposes? The slightly awkward notion of affectivating brings the affective dimension of the human experience into the centre of the scope of cultural Psychologies, which have usually focused on the social side of human experiencing. Insofar as different versions of Cultural Psychology have fostered a view of the mind as socially constituted, aspects of the mind traditionally understood as individual have been minimized or even neglected. This has distinctively been the case of affects in social conceptions of mind
Valsiner, J., Marsico, G., (2019). Symbolic Places: Cultural Psychology of Human Life Course. In T. Zittoun (2019). Sociocultural Psychology at the Regional Scale: A case study of a hill. Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science, (pp. vii-ix), New York: Springer New York:Springer
No full textThis book reveals the intricacies of how human lives are interwoven with symbolic places created out of natural environments. Its author is on the forefront of our contemporary cultural psychologies movement—building new science of specifically human psychology (“Yokohama Manifesto”- Valsiner, Marsico, Chaudhary, Sato and Dazzani, 2016). In this new trans-disciplinary work artificial borders between various sciences—psychology, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, ad folklore—vanish. Instead we have a picture of unique texture of human beings living in their self-constructed life-worlds embedded in community, society, and—last but not least- in the geological textures of their given natural environment
Valsiner, J. Cornejo C., Marsico G .(2019). How can things be ordinary? In G. Marsico & L. Tateo (Eds). Ordinary Things and their Extraordinary Meanings. Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 3, pp. vii-x, Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing
No full textIn the present volume, the third of the series Annals of Cultural Psychology, Giuseppina Marsico and Luca Tateo present us the surprisingly complex semiotic reality of the material things surrounding us. These wide set of objects and stances thoroughly overspread our immediate environment. From the sounds that compose our speech, to our clothing; from our pen to the music we hear; money and the windows. Most familiar aspects of our environment —precisely those aspects that we in normal circumstances take for granted— involve the manipulation of or merely the confrontation with things. Already the pervasiveness of material things in our social world would be a reason to have, and even since a long time, a psychology of things. Curiously enough, as the editors in their introduction show, such a topic should be justified for the contemporary psychology. Since its origins psychology has leaned to abstraction edifying models of mind settled by inmaterial instances, or rather, virtual entitites whose materiality (or inmateriality) is not an question. As these objects are abstract (representations, concepts, ideas, etc.), they are not part of the concrete world where people live in. Psychology’s predilection for extraordinary things (and the consequently oblivion of ordinary things) is deeply rooted in the long tradition of philosophical detachment from the concreteness —a tradition that invented the imperceptible thing-in-itself, perhaps the best example of abstracting from the mundane world
Contesting Europe. Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400-1800
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Cornejo, C., Marsico, G. & Valsiner, J. (Eds.). (2018). Affectivation as a return to vitality. In C. Cornejo, G. Marsico, & J. Valsiner (Eds.). “I Activate You To Affect Me”. Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 2, Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textThe fact that the lines, forms, colors, and textures of our aesthetic landscape have affec-tive and dispositional consequences in us constitutes one of the most prominent tenets supported by the chapters of this volume. This may have been a quite obvious statement for a sensitive architect—such as Oscar Niemeyer—but it is rather challenging for most contemporary psychological approaches. Our contemporary psychology builds its understanding of psychological phenomena on the General Linear Model—emphasizing the linearity rather tan curvilinearity in the data—while phenomena of psychology, similarly to those of biological nature, are non-linear. This is a major epistemological problem for psychology as science
rec. a Delle Donne, Fulvio - Cappelli, Guido, "Nel Regno delle lettere. Umanesimo e politica nel Mezzogiorno aragonese", Roma, Carocci, 2021 (con C. Marsico)
No full textLa recensione ripercorre i principali contenuti del volume "Nel regno delle lettere", evidenziando i nucei fondamentali e mettendoli in relazione con la moderna storiografia umanistica
Marsico G., Valsiner J. (2018). Is there any reason for suffering—for science in psychology? In G. Marsico & J. Valsiner, J. (2018). Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche. (pp. 49-52), Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textPart I includes texts about the current state of affairs in psychology, and of the emergence of the new area—cultural psychology—that turns out to be older than psychology itself. The sentiments expressed in these two papers seem to represent the doubts their author has about the future of psychology as a science
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