Psychology as a Dialogical Science by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030447724
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Concluding Remarks

In this chapter, we aimed at discussing modalities of thinking about the self in contemporary psychology, and to explore the idea of a semiotic-cultural self developing through internalization/externalization processes and self-other relations. The idea was to contribute to studies on the construction of human subjectivity, integrating narrative, dialogical, and semiotic cultural perspectives. We examined how these perspectives could complement one another and allow for deepening our understanding about self development, with special regard for transition to adolescence, taking this life course transition as a dialogical-semiotic event.

The need for greater attention to semiotic-affective processes and for a broader scope of investigation, beyond the use of narrative as a theoretical-methodological tool, was highlighted. The case study of Fernando explored one possible pathway to investigate the embodied character of self. By combining methodological tools in longitudinal time—interviews and drawing—we could simultaneously access visual and narrative modes of meaning-making, highlighting the process of self-imaging—a special kind of imagination.

We argue that self-imaging emerges from the Gestalt of internalizations/externalizations, and allows for the creation and enactment (at the level of fantasy) of a sort of a performative self. In Fernando’s case study, it was possible to see his agentive recreation of cultural elements to build Nandoman, which acted as an empowered self-image, orienting Fernando to overcome the challenges he experienced in his transition to a new school environment. Along these lines, we argue that the process of self-imaging may take a developmental self-regulatory function that reverberates into the person’s present and future actions and feelings.

Fig. 4.1“Naruto”

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