Dialogical Self System Development: The Co-construction of Dynamic Self-Positionings Along Life Course

Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

“…Affective-Semiotic Fields Among Valsiner's contributions for the advancement of psychological science, I wish to underline in this chapter one of his key generative ideas, which lie at the very basis of present empirical and theoretical efforts Branco et al, 2020;Roncancio-Moreno, 2015).…”

“…From childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Affective-Semiotic Fields emerge, intensify, persist, transform, and fade away. As they emerge, they are hierarchically organized within the Dialogical Self System (Branco et al, 2020), and their hierarchical organization may change as time and contexts change alongside persons' life's trajectories. As they emerge, Affective-Semiotic Fields impregnate what we have denominated as Dynamic Self Positionings (DSP) (Branco et al, 2020), which correspond to what Hermans and colleagues designate as I-Positions .…”

“…As they emerge, they are hierarchically organized within the Dialogical Self System (Branco et al, 2020), and their hierarchical organization may change as time and contexts change alongside persons' life's trajectories. As they emerge, Affective-Semiotic Fields impregnate what we have denominated as Dynamic Self Positionings (DSP) (Branco et al, 2020), which correspond to what Hermans and colleagues designate as I-Positions . With time and experience, certain Affective-Semiotic Fields become hypergeneralized and give rise to values and prejudices, which then guide the human psyche.…”

Self-imaging: beyond children’s and adolescents’ self-image / El Self imaginando-se: más allá de la autoimagen de niños y adolescentes

“…Esta perspectiva cultural se sintoniza con una idea del desarrollo que está en permanente transformación y en la cual el sujeto atraviesa momentos de transición que llevan a la reconfiguración del Self (Zittoun, 2015). El Self se define como un sistema con naturaleza dinámica y con la posibilidad de posicionarse y reposicionarse a lo largo de su trayectoria de vida (Branco, 2010). Tal sistema se configura y reconfigura permanentemente a partir de la construcción de Campos Afectivo-Semióticos (CAS) que se definen como campos en los que operan diferentes fuerzas o tensiones que permiten la construcción permanente de nuevos significados.…”

“…This cultural perspective is attuned to an idea of development as continuous transformation, where the subject goes through moments of transition that lead to self-reconfiguration (Zittoun, 2015). Self is defined as a system with a dynamic nature, as it has the possibility of positioning and repositioning itself throughout life trajectory (Branco, 2010). This system is always being configured and reconfigured from the construction of Affective-Semiotic Fields (ASF), here defined as fields in which different forces or tensions operate, facilitating the permanent construction of new meanings, such as meanings related to feeling intelligent or not intelligent, capable or incapable, among others.…”