Psychology in Black and White: The Project of a Theory-Driven Science (HC) (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development)

It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught."--Page 4 of cover;Part 1. Microphysics of sensemaking. The meaning of our discontent -- The semio-dynamic model of sensemaking (SDMS) -- Microdynamics of sensemaking -- The semiotic big bang -- Part 2. Theoretical explorations. The contexuality of mind -- Beyond subject and object -- Affect and desire as semiotic processes -- Exercises of semiotic reframing -- Part 2. A new methodological approach. Field dependency and abduction -- The modeling of sensemaking -- Models and strategies of empirical investigation -- Studies of sensemaking Contents 10 NEW SYNTHESIS 18 INTRODUCTION 22 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 44 part i 48 THE MEANING OF OUR DISCONTENT 50 THE SEMIO-DYNAMIC MODEL OF SENSEMAKING (SDMS) 66 Microdynamic of sensemaking 88 The semiotic Big Bang 112 PART II 132 THE CONTEXTUALITY OF MIND 134 Beyond subject and object 150 affect and desire as semiotic process 162 EXERCISES OF SEMIOTIC REFRAMING 190 PART III 220 Field dependency and abduction 222 THE MODELING OF SENSEMAKING 248 MODELS AND STRATEGIES OF EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION 276 STUDIES OF SENSEMAKING 312 Epilogue 342 References 346 About the author 366 This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught.