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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
Cornejio C., Valsiner, J., Marsico, G. (2015). Meaning-making and Motherhood: What Cultural Psychology can provide. In K.R., Cabell, G., Marsico, C., Cornejo, & J., Valsiner, (Eds.). Making meaning, making motherhood. Annals Of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 1, (pp. 395-402), Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textCultural psychology is at the verge of becoming fashionable—for an area
of substantive promise that is dangerous, since it can replace a substantive
search for new approaches by rhetoric positioning in relation with other
perspectives. In this volume, the basic human condition of motherhood
was selected as the target phenomenon to make sense of the meaningmaking
processes in human lives. It directly concerns half of humankind,
and its presence is a necessary starting point for all of it. Motherhood is
the key to human survival.
What is a woman doing when she is stating the obvious—“I am the
mother?” The fact that she has given birth to a baby is not in question—the
baby is hanging on to the mother’s breast. Even if the woman is a wet nurse
to the given on-hanger, she needs to be a mother of another baby (her
own) to have the capability of selling her services of her body for healthy
nutritional purposes. Or if the baby is of her own, she is dedicating her role
to some social institution that may send the once-baby onto a battlefield
as a “child soldier” or a regular army conscript—never to return. Motherhood
is a process of giving—a meaningful act of creating the Other who
becomes an autonomous person. Motherhood is the longitudinal course
of distancing without distancing
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
Marsico, G., (Ed). (2015). Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating possibilities. Cultural Psychology of Education, 2, Cham, Switzerland: Springer;
No full textThis book celebrates the 100th birthday of Jerome S. Bruner, one of the most relevant
scholars in contemporary psychology. It shows how Bruner’s oeuvre and contributions
to psychology, education and law are still applicable today and full of unexplored
possibilities. The volume brings together contributions from Bruner’s students and
colleagues, all of whom use his legacy to explore the future of psychology in in Bruner’s
spirit of interpretation. Rather than being a mere celebration, the volume shows a
“genuine interest for the emergence of the novelty” and examines the potentialities
of Bruner’s work in cultural psychology, discussing such concepts as ambivalence,
intersubjectivity, purpose, possibilities, and wonderment. Combining international and
interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume tells the tale of Jerome Bruner’s academic life
and beyond
Marsico, G., (2015). Interview with Jerome Bruner: The History of Psychology in the First Person. In G. Marsico (Ed.) Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating possibilities, Cultural Psychology of Education, 2, (pp.3-17), Cham, Switzerland: Springer
No full textJerry Bruner’s, almost 100 year old, provides a look over the his personal and professional trajectory. The result is a very intense and warm conversation where some crucial topics in Psychology are discussed
Marsico, G., (2015). Cultivating possibilities for cultural psychology. Jerome Bruner in his becoming. In G. Marsico (Ed.) Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating possibilities. Cultural Psychology of Education, 2, (pp. 241-245), Cham, Switzerland: Springer;
No full textJerome Bruner, all along his career, has been always interested in grasping the complex relationship of the human psyche with the socio cultural context. This holistic approach is the very core of the cultural psychology perspective that has nothing to do with the fragmentation of the current research in psychology, mostly focused on “discrete elements of a phenomena” or only “a portion of a behavior” . Cultural psychology, instead, deals with the goal-oriented and meaningful human conduct which is hardly modeled by standardized methods, but that is intelligible troughs narratives from which the cultural nature of meanings emerges.Bruner has been at the forefront of this current scientific enterprise that runs under the label of cultural psychology, largely contributing to its two main investigative axes: the topic of culture in human development and the dynamic of social discourses of ordinary people in their culturally organized contexts.
Cultural psychology pays attention to the interconnection between mental processes and cultural and contextual dimensions. Its objects of study are the higher psychological functions and the mechanisms through which individuals form their minds and attribute meanings to their lives and to the world surrounding them.The fundamental issues of who we are as humans and how we become humans imply a holistic approach to the psyche in its complexity. The legacy of Jerry Bruner is taken over by those scholars that are working in turning psychology into a science of the human ways of being
Marsico, G., (2015). Living to Tell the Tale of Psychology: Jerome Bruner the Giant. In G. Marsico (Ed.) Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating possibilities, Cultural Psychology of Education, 2, (pp. xvii- xxii), Cham, Switzerland: Springer;
No full textJerome Bruner is undoubtedly one of the scholars who has chiefly contributed to the advancement of psychology. He passed through almost all the psychological paradigms and helping to illuminate the relationship between mind and culture, between human beings and contexts in which they operate and in which the process of sense making takes place (just for mentioning something of his vast intellectual program).
He has built and renewal psychology and other sisters discipline from inside, but people who directly know him are fascinated by his capability to tell this incredible professional trajectory as an amazing adventure. The fine novel Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez is the most appropriate for describing the extraordinary convergence of living, creating and telling psychology as in the Jerry’s case. Jerry Bruner always had and still has a genuine interest for the emergence of the novelty and this book underlies exactly the innovative action Jerry made along the history of contemporary psychology which is still actively persisting. The book focus on the analysis of Jerry work in cultural psychology at the intersection with other field like education, philosophy, computational science and law
Marsico, G., (2015). Jerome Bruner: the psychology in its making. In G. Marsico (Ed.) Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating possibilities, Cultural Psychology of Education, 2, (pp. v-vi), Cham, Switzerland: Springer
No full textThis book is meant to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jerome Bruner, one of the most relevant scholars in contemporary psychology. Though his contribution to psychology, education and law has been massive, Bruner oeuvre has still a lot to say in terms of unexplored possibilities. The book “Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultivating Possibilities” is collecting contribution from Bruner’s students and colleagues worldwide that will try to use his legacy to look forward to the future of psychology, exactly in the spirit that Bruner himself is still interpreting. Thus, no celebration but a “genuine interest for the emergence of the novelty” and the potentialities that Bruner’s work in cultural psychology can still develop, with concepts such as ambivalence, intersubjectivity, purpose, possibilities, wonderment. The books shares the interdisciplinary perspectives of scholars coming from the different world areas – USA, Italy, Brazil, France, Denmark, UK - and different fields- psychology, education, law, philosophy, computing sciences- who provide the tale of Bruner’s academic and personal life and what is still to be done on the basis of his scientific production. The volume contains also an interview to Jerry Bruner e an almost inedited work of him
Marsico G., Valsiner J. (2018). Relating with Society—by going beyond the Practyically Useful. In G. Marsico & J. Valsiner, J. (2018). Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche. Charlotte, (pp. 415-417), N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textArticles in Part VI showed some healthy skepticism about efforts to idealize “the society” as a value in itself. First of all, the issue of oppositional tensions within a “society” was focused upon: are we talking about a society of “consumers” or that of “producers”? Or of “loyal citizens” who accept all innovations meant to control them as if these liberate them
Marsico G., Valsiner J. (2018). The Sublime Movement between Infinities. In G. Marsico & J. Valsiner, J. (2018). Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche. (pp. 265-267), Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
No full textPart IV of this book took the readers to deeply sensual domains of human ways of being, arriving at the dynamic subtlety of the sublime—a transitory state between the mundane and the beautiful. Most of the existing philosophical and psychological perspectives have treated the beautiful (aesthetic) as an opposite to the mundane—losing the boundary between them. The beautiful even becomes specified as being beyond the border of the mundane—to be kept separate from the latter. The aesthetic is for the pure pleasure of the beauty—without links to practical life. This world view is of the static kind—while in this book it is the dynamic side of the psychological functions that is prioritized
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