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Chapter 30 - The Dialogical Self

Social, Personal, and (Un) Conscious

from Part VI - From social culture to personal culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Clark University, Massachusetts
Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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This chapter attempts a contribution to the development of such a promising theory relating to a dialogical self, in the tradition initiated by Hermans and his collaborators. It clarifies the basic axiomatic assumptions of dialogism, in order to create a tool for a critical analysis of the dialogical self-theory. The chapter discusses with some reflections about the structural elements of a dialogical self-description and its dynamics, especially its hierarchical organization. In order to build a dialogical perspective about psychological phenomena, one should probably take into account that (1) the psychological realm is brought to being through the dialogical properties of our existence, and (2) dialogicality is deeply rooted in a given cultural context. A dialogical self is a difficult task for a science that highly values a disengaged subject with rational properties within a society that is still largely formatted by individualistic values.
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Print publication year: 2007

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