Allolio-Näcke L (2024)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Springer
Edited Volumes: Cultural Psychology. An Introduction
City/Town: Wiesbaden
Pages Range: 37-46
ISBN: 9783658451554
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-45155-4_4
This chapter presents the symbolic action perspective of Ernst E. Boesch and highlights its significance for cultural psychology. First, action itself is defined and distinguished from behavior. Subsequently, important concepts for Boesch’s theory and their origins are explained. Following this, I demonstrate, using the development of the child, how actions become symbolic actions. It is initially important to understand how signs become symbols and how these are then linked with actions. In play and in everyday practice, the meanings associated with an action gradually accumulate, so that they become overdetermined. They also accumulate with affective experiences, so that they become polyvalent. How these individual symbolic actions are linked with culture will be clarified using the concepts of phantasma and myth. Finally, I provide an example of the application of the symbolic action perspective in the sense of Boesch: reading as a cultural action.
APA:
Allolio-Näcke, L. (2024). The Symbolic Action Perspective. In Uwe Wolfradt, Lars Allolio-Näcke, Paul Sebastian Ruppel (Eds.), Cultural Psychology. An Introduction. (pp. 37-46). Wiesbaden: Springer.
MLA:
Allolio-Näcke, Lars. "The Symbolic Action Perspective." Cultural Psychology. An Introduction. Ed. Uwe Wolfradt, Lars Allolio-Näcke, Paul Sebastian Ruppel, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2024. 37-46.
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