The Guided Mind

A Sociogenetic Approach to Personality

By: Jaan Valsiner

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Hardcover | 25 November 1998 | Edition Number 1

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How is something as broad and complex as a personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of personality? In this ambitious book, Jaan Valsiner argues for a theoretical integration of two long-standing approaches: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology, typified by the work of William Stern and Gordon Allport, and the semiotic tradition of cultural-historical psychology, typified by the work of L. S. Vygotsky. The two are brought together in Valsiner's theory, which highlights the sign-constructing and sign-using nature of all distinctively human psychological processes.

Arguing that the individualistic and the cultural traditions differ largely in emphasis, Valsiner unites them by focusing on the intricate relations between personality and its social context, and their interplay in personality development. The semiotic devices internalized from the social environment shape an individual's development, and the flow of thinking, feeling, and acting. Valsiner uses this theoretical approach to illuminate two remarkable, and remarkably different, phenomena: letters from the mother of Allport's college roommate, a key empirical case in Allport's theory, and the ritual movements of a Hindu temple dancer. Valsiner shows how both exemplify basic human tendencies for the cultural construction of life courses.

The Guided Mind shows the fundamental unities in the vastly diverse phenomenon of human personality.

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Lovers of Vygotsky, Lewin, G. Allport, Stern, and Bakhtin rejoice: The Guided Mind relies on the perspectives of these (and other) theoreticians to provide a provocative account of how personality may be organized. -- D. S. Dunn Choice

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Non-Fiction Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Preface
Introduction: Why a Sociogenetic Approach to Personality?	p. 1
Personality and Psychology: Commonsense and General Assumptions	p. 6
A Theoretical Framework: "Bounded Indeterminacy" in Personality Organization
Constraining of Acting, Feeling, and Thinking: Semiotic Regulation of Personality	p. 43
Appropriation, Internalization/Externalization, and Self-Construction	p. 100
Historical and Theoretical Foundations
Sociogenetic Perspectives on the Self	p. 139
Personological Constructions of Personality	p. 199
Semiotic Regulation of Psychological Processes	p. 234
From Theory to Interpretations of Personal Worlds
Semiosis and Methodology: Implications for Psychological Research Practices	p. 285
The Subjective World of Jenny: A Case of Caring Suffocation	p. 324
Personality Dancing in the Temple: Cultural Constraining and Sensuality	p. 344
Conclusion: The Guided and (Self-) Guiding Mind	p. 385
References	p. 401
Index	p. 451
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