Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (Annals of Cultural Psychology) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 4: Annals of Cultural Psychology
 
9781641136822: Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (Annals of Cultural Psychology)
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ISBN 10: 1641136820 ISBN 13: 9781641136822
Verlag: Information Age Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People’s life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful? In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/ show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon “things” is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.

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Giuseppina Marsico, University of Salerno, Italy.

Luca Tateo, Aalborg University, Denmark

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Verlag
Information Age Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1641136820
ISBN 13 
9781641136822
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
318
Herausgeber
Marsico Giuseppina, Tateo Luca
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