Maria C. D. P. Lyra

Como a mente se torna social para Barbara Rogoff? A questão da centralidade do sujeito

This essay aims to ransom the autonomy of subject into sociocultural activity. It starts discussing the sociocultural perspective of Cultural Psychology where mind is conceived as a social entity developing in a social world. To achieve this objective we use the unity of analysis as sociocultural activity proposed by Barbara Rogoff, including the subjects, the relationship between them and the institutions and community in which this activity takes place. Here is highlighted her concepts of guided participation and participatory appropriation. In the same way, we make use of Jaan Valsiners notion of inclusive separation to emphasize the semiotic capacity the subjects show in creative acts in a reversible time. The synthesis appears when this subject is not only approached as immersed in an activity, but as subject of that activity, emerging through the capacity to think about and change it, developing the autonomy through the semiotic capacity of human being.

On Interaction Analysis and Dialogical Perspective: Emergent Patterns of Order and Relational Agency

This essay proposes to contribute with a continuing discussion on Grossen’s paper (2010) establishing a link between the analysis of interactions and dialogical perspective using what I call simplication-for-approaching-complexity (SFAC). This approach conceives of dialogical dynamics as a dynamic system of relationship that construct patterns. Moreover, these emergent patterns allow inferring the features of dialogical partners as relational agencies. The specific characteristics of the relational agency at any moment in dialogue can be inferred from the analysis of the specific pattern of order achieved by the historical development of dialogue. This proposal is illustrated by the analysis of mother-infant interactions.

O modelo EEA para a investigação da emergência e desenvolvimento da comunicação e do self: bases conceituais e fundamentos teórico-metodológicos

A coerencia entre os fundamentos teoricos e metodologicos e requisito de toda investigacao cientifica. Com o objetivo de ilustrar esta coerencia, apresentamos, primeiramente, o modelo EEA, aplicado ao estudo do processo de desenvolvimento da comunicacao mae-bebe e a emergencia do bebe como self dialogico. Este modelo integra uma sequencia de tres padroes de organizacao denominados estabelecimento, extensao e abreviacao (EEA). Em seguida, descrevemos, discutimos e justificamos as bases conceituais e as duas perspectivas teorico-metodologicas que fundamentam este modelo, Sistemas Dinâmicos e Dialogismo, sobretudo na perspectiva de Bakhtin.

Desenvolvimento na interação social e no contexto histórico-cultural: adequação entre perspectiva teórica e metodologia

The aim of this introductory paper is to present an integrated message, elaborated as critical features of a proposal which considers the scientific research in psychological development as embedded in social interaction and in the historical-cultural context. Three aspects are discussed: 1) the conceptualization of the phenomenon of psychological development; 2) the meaning of social interaction and of historical-cultural context for this development; and 3) the urgent need for a conceptual linkage regarding theoretical and methodological aspects of scientific investigation. The diversity of readings of this proposal is reflected in the different papers that compose this special issue, including those that are comments on papers. Nevertheless, all the contributors present texts that reflect their answers regarding those three fundamental aspects, although they differ in the emphasis given to each one.

Contributions for Modeling the Psychotherapeutic Process of Change

This essay is a contribution to the discussions on the modeling of the psychotherapeutic process of change. Three aspects are highlighted: an evaluation of the emergence and transformation of novelty in the narratives of the clients; the inclusion of the psychotherapist as a dialogical partner that constructs with the client her new narratives; and a tentative analysis of the meaning-making of this construction along the successive moments of the dialogical exchanges between the client and the psychotherapist. It is finally pointed out some gains in modeling the client-psychotherapist dialogical process of (ex)changes.

Commentary: Modeling the Dynamics of Meaning Construction: Appropriation of the Home Environment

In my commentary regarding Giorgi, Padiglione and Pontecorvos article, I elaborate on building an initial model for the dynamics of meaning construction of the appropriation process in the home environment. Based on principles from dynamic systems and dialogical perspectives, particularly dialogism, as well as an idiographic science framework, I undertake a re-analysis of the data presented by the authors, with the aim of distinguishing possible general aspects of these dynamics and outlining the principles that guided both this re-analysis and the modeling proposed. The re-analysis suggests that the intensity of the dynamic movement of negotiation is greater at moments when we face discernible, close, triggering partners. More intense dynamics lead to a greater involvement of self-affective dimensions as well as a highlighting and clarifying of the oppositions involved in the mechanism of dialogical tensions. However, these features seem to become less pronounced as the intensity of the dynamics rises even more strongly.

Process-Product Dynamics: The Role of Otherness in Cultural Cultivation

Carriere (2013) presents a stimulating perspective on the cultural phenomena aiming to recover the role of the external products of culture to imbalance the currently popular emphasis on subject’s process of cultivation highlighted by semiotic developmental cultural psychology. The excessive focus on subject’s internal processes dismissing a better consideration of products of culture and the compelling objective realities of other dimensions of culture are pointed out. By this way the author’s proposes a better dialogue with others perspectives on (cross)cultural psychology. These arguments are analyzed through a closer consideration of I-Other perennial movement. A dialogical view of process-product dynamics is then proposed. The role of Otherness—the one that (partially)shares and the one as witness, approving or disapproving subject’s products of cultivation—is discussed through the analysis of a concrete episode of the cultivation of the subject. It is concluded that a semiotic developmental cultural psychology and (cross) cultural psychology have different objects of knowledge comprising distinct interests and research fields.

Padrões de organização do sistema de comunicação mãe-bebê nas interações face a face: estudo de cinco díades

Patterns of organization of the mother-infant communication in face-to-face interactions: The study of five dyads. We present the patterns of organization that emerge from the developmental process of mother-infant communication in face-to-face exchanges. This process is conceived as creating a dynamic system in constant transformation and construction. The patterns of organization describe the periods of stability of this system, proposed by the EEA model as corresponding to three successive patterns, starting by an initial establishment, followed by a period of extension, and finally by an abbreviation of the dyadic exchanges. We analyzed the longitudinal mother-infant face-to-face exchanges from five dyads, describing the process of organization of these patterns. We identified a general tendency toward maintenance of the sequence of emergence and dominance of these three patterns in all five dyads, according to the proposals of the EEA model. However, each dyad differs in terms of age of appearance, dominance and duration of each of these patterns.

O processo de significação no tempo narrativo: uma proposta metodológica

Meaning-making process in the narrative time: a methodological proposal. This work proposes a methodology of analysis that takes time as central conception to the construction of narrative meanings (Ricoeur, 1994). The theoretical and methodological bases support the proposal of three dimensions of analysis called mimesis I, II and III. Mimesis I analysis is reported and exemplified. This first mimesis refers to a necessary previous agreement between an author and audience about the world of the narrated action. The analysis of a narrative written by a high school female student regarding her school experience provides an illustration of how time becomes specialized as cronotopos, constituting the scenery for meaning construction (Bakhtin, 1986, 2000). These sceneries offer the locus in which possibilities and difficulties involved in the transformation and development of the author create the meanings of his/her experience. They also provide elements to the identification of interfaces between the individual development and the socio-cultural environment where this development occurs.

A CONSTRUÇÃO CULTURAL DE SIGNIFICADOS SOBRE ADOÇÃO: UM PROCESSO SEMIÓTICO

We searched to understand the process of meaning making about adoption, addressing a member of the extended family of a satisfactory case of adoption, using the theoretical and methodological foundations of Semiotics Cultural Psychology from idiographic orientation. We highlighted the dynamic between the meanings that exist in the collective culture, in transformation, and the personal meaning making. The construction of the meanings of adoption, even in a family whose adoption is accepted by all, is characterized by the existence of a constant tension and by the ambivalence between the collective culture full of myths and prejudices shared in a system of redundant messages, but also reflecting a current process in which the adoption is presented as commendable and desirable and the gradual construction of a personal culture. Some suggestions on useful directions for the work of guidance to prospective parents and adoption support groups are suggested.