Author

Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

114,000 words, Guess

Page Count

456 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC155.2
  • LCCBF698.9.S63 V35 1998

Description

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.

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