Book contents
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Epigraph
- Introductory chapter
- Part I Theoretical contributions
- 1 Positioning in the dialogical self: recent advances in theory construction
- 2 Time and the dialogical self
- 3 Developmental origins of the dialogical self: early childhood years
- 4 Self-making through synthesis: extending dialogical self theory
- 5 Multiculturalism, multiple identifications and the dialogical self: shifting paradigms of personhood in sociocultural anthropology
- 6 Acculturation and the dialogical formation of immigrant identity: race and culture in diaspora spaces
- 7 Psychodrama: from dialogical self theory to a self in dialogical action
- 8 Identity construction among transnational migrants: a dialogical analysis of the interplay between personal, social and societal levels
- 9 Negotiating with autonomy and relatedness: dialogical processes in everyday lives of Indians
- 10 Dialogicality and the internet
- 11 Schizophrenia and alterations in first-person experience: advances offered from the vantage point of dialogical self theory
- 12 The dialogical self in the new South Africa
- Part II Methods for studying the dialogical self
- Part III Domains of application
- Epilogue
- Index
3 - Developmental origins of the dialogical self: early childhood years
from Part I - Theoretical contributions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Epigraph
- Introductory chapter
- Part I Theoretical contributions
- 1 Positioning in the dialogical self: recent advances in theory construction
- 2 Time and the dialogical self
- 3 Developmental origins of the dialogical self: early childhood years
- 4 Self-making through synthesis: extending dialogical self theory
- 5 Multiculturalism, multiple identifications and the dialogical self: shifting paradigms of personhood in sociocultural anthropology
- 6 Acculturation and the dialogical formation of immigrant identity: race and culture in diaspora spaces
- 7 Psychodrama: from dialogical self theory to a self in dialogical action
- 8 Identity construction among transnational migrants: a dialogical analysis of the interplay between personal, social and societal levels
- 9 Negotiating with autonomy and relatedness: dialogical processes in everyday lives of Indians
- 10 Dialogicality and the internet
- 11 Schizophrenia and alterations in first-person experience: advances offered from the vantage point of dialogical self theory
- 12 The dialogical self in the new South Africa
- Part II Methods for studying the dialogical self
- Part III Domains of application
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
The dialogical self theory's (DST) growing importance and increasing multidisciplinarity have resulted in elaborating several developmental issues: in infancy, in young adults, and regarding significant processes such as cultural transition and motherhood. The chronology given is thus an approach with hints to significant moments within the first two years of life and a glimpse into further development. The dialogical quality of the infant's activities is correlated with heart rate: provocative imitations are shown to be anticipated by heart deceleration indicating preparation for an expected stimulus. Timing and taking up the other's bodily performance show time and form as supports of earliest proto-conversations between partners on the body level. Self comes to be within the rhythm of intersubjectivity, first in a fully concrete sense. DST is different from other self theories in the respect that it opens up to the rhythmicity of selfness-otherness, forming a dynamic unity.
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- Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory , pp. 64 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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