The whole of our psychological system is set up to make distinctions within the field within which we are constantly moving. Our perceptual system operates in the pickup of the information flow of forms-in-movement—in all sense domains (visual, auditory, tactile, haptic, and olfactory). Furthermore, our attention mechanisms further sieve the perceptual input, making it open for semiotic reconstruction and presentation. The latter sets up our facing for the future—by presentation of the past experience through signs, we create the next moment of our experience. The irreversibility of time guarantees the uniqueness of experiences—while the making of distinctions and their semiotic organization works precisely toward the opposition of that uniqueness. Through our selective attention and perceptual and semiotic distinctions, we create a subjective world that appears to us as relatively stable. It is, of course, an illusion—yet a highly functional one. It can be argued that the emergence of ever complex semiotic regulatory systems in phylogeny is a human adaptation to the lurking chaos of the uncertainties of expected future experiences. The future is uncertain—and the past is constantly being reconstructed as we face the uncertainty of the future. The act of treating the human psyche as involved in dialogues—with others and within oneself—allows psychology to overcome its traditional ontological focus. The focus on the Self as involved in dialogues is an intra-psychological action domain aimed at the same outcome as the rituals that help the person to enter the extra-psychological construction of the given psychological process of uniting one’s self with a non-self world—by acting or contemplation—to create a hyper-generalized semiotic field of affective kind.

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Making Oppositions: Dualities in Meaning-Making and the Polyphonic System of the Soul

  • Jaan Valsiner

摘要

The whole of our psychological system is set up to make distinctions within the field within which we are constantly moving. Our perceptual system operates in the pickup of the information flow of forms-in-movement—in all sense domains (visual, auditory, tactile, haptic, and olfactory). Furthermore, our attention mechanisms further sieve the perceptual input, making it open for semiotic reconstruction and presentation. The latter sets up our facing for the future—by presentation of the past experience through signs, we create the next moment of our experience. The irreversibility of time guarantees the uniqueness of experiences—while the making of distinctions and their semiotic organization works precisely toward the opposition of that uniqueness. Through our selective attention and perceptual and semiotic distinctions, we create a subjective world that appears to us as relatively stable. It is, of course, an illusion—yet a highly functional one. It can be argued that the emergence of ever complex semiotic regulatory systems in phylogeny is a human adaptation to the lurking chaos of the uncertainties of expected future experiences. The future is uncertain—and the past is constantly being reconstructed as we face the uncertainty of the future. The act of treating the human psyche as involved in dialogues—with others and within oneself—allows psychology to overcome its traditional ontological focus. The focus on the Self as involved in dialogues is an intra-psychological action domain aimed at the same outcome as the rituals that help the person to enter the extra-psychological construction of the given psychological process of uniting one’s self with a non-self world—by acting or contemplation—to create a hyper-generalized semiotic field of affective kind.