Acts of Psyche

Trajectories of Experience of Real Life Events. A Semiotic Approach to the Dynamics of Positioning

“…To attempt to relate experience with behavior a theoretical model tailored to these purposes would be needed. This is what Rosa (2007a;2007b) did by applying…”

“…When the situation is very familiar and resembles earlier experiences we can do this quite automatically, through the activation of an intentional schema (Rosa, 2007a) that starts a dramaturgical actuation (a sort of learned script attuned to the current circumstances, see Rosa, 2007a).…”

“…These were followed by another series of questions on moral aspects: what they 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 considered to be the right course of action at the time, what they thought later they should have done, and how they judged their own actuation during the activity at the moment of writing the self-report. These questions were devised following a semantic approach to the analysis of action advanced by Rosa (2007a;2007b) and further produced in Rosa and Gonzalez (2006;in press). Figure 2 shows a graphic model of how experience develops into an understanding of the situation and a personal positioning before the on-going episodes.…”

Understanding Acting in Complex Environments: Building a Synergy of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, Peirce, and Ecofunctionalism

“…Both affordances and resources to exploit them are fundamentally interactive conceptions that describe the mutual dependency between the environment and the organism, but, respectively, express the relationship from the perspective of either the environment or the organism. A very similar idea of the organism-environment interaction is employed by Alberto Rosa (2007), who described interaction between the environmental affordances and the organism's effectivities that results in a field of the potential for action and meaning (p. 220). In my analysis approach, a functional modelling technique developed by Jens Rasmussen (Naikar, 2013;Rasmussen, 1986;Vicente, 1999) is applied for examining the environmental possibilities.…”

Social semiotics and social representations

“…However, it is in the socio-cultural tradition of psychology that social signification plays its most fundamental role. In the work of Valsiner (2007) and Rosa (2007), culture is essentially seen as a form of semiotic mediation, and these authors borrow heavily from the semiotic tradition, and in particular from the work of Charles Peirce and the successive interpretative semiotics school. For example, for Valsiner (2007) the role of semiosis is at the centre of human experience and he introduces the notions of 'field, node and promoter signs' in his account of the structural features of signs and symbols.…”