Culture of Action

The present work introduces innovative research on Symbolic Action Theory, blending theoretical insights with practical applications in psychology. It revisits Ernest Boesch's foundational concepts in Symbolic Action Theory and proposes further advancements in the field. These contributions pave the way for theoretical refinements as well as applied research aimed at enriching clinical, educational, and life-philosophical interventions both within and beyond academic contexts. This book is designed to engage psychologists from diverse specialties while also serving as a valuable resource for practitioners operating in clinical and non-clinical settings alike.

Provides new revisions and advancements in the field of Symbolic Action Theory within E.E. Boesch's scientific legacy Includes interventional tools for clinical and non-clinical settings within the tenets of Symbolic Action Theory Bridges theoretical and applied research within the domain of Symbolic Action Theory

Autorentext

Enno Freiherr von Fircks is a Social and Political Psychologist. His work is concentrated on applying Boeschian Cultural Psychology to the work setting as well as showing the philosophical and literary roots of Cultural Psychology. He also works as a Gestalt practitioner, as a lecturer and as a tennis instructor in Germany providing him with the opportunity to apply his theoretical insights and develop them in-vivo. He has published more than 30 articles in the field of clinical, educational, organizational and general psychology. Further, he has published a monograph in the SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology book series edited by Jaan Valsiner and Pina Marsico title Conservativism: A Cultural-Psychological Synthesis. A second monograph was published about William Stern’s Critical Personalism and its pathways for revolutionizing today’s psychology wholistically published by IAP (Learning with William Stern: Personology for Future). Currently in press is an edited volume– titled Culture and Leadership: From Approximation towards Symbiosis. His recent projects include two edited volumes about Goethian science and its implication for psychology as a whole, as well as a volume in French about cultural-psychological theories and methodologies for the francophone area.

Inhalt

From Fantasms to Action: The Collective Action Potential (Editor's Preface).- . E.E. Boesch's Cultural Psychology: A Framework for Theory and Practice (Author's Preface).- 1. From What-Is to What-Should-Be: A Systematic Approach to Understanding Action in Cultural Psychology.- 2. The Action Phase Model in Irreversible Time.- 3. The Action Potential Concept and its Underlying Mechanisms.- 4. The Interplay of Stress, Action Potential and Cultural Pre-Conditioning: Beyond Symbolic Action Theory.- 5. The Dynamics of Affect: Symbol Action Theory and Affect-Theory Re-Loaded.- 6. Collective Action Potential and I/World Balance: The role of gatekeepers and dialogical isles of mediation.- 7. Dialogues with the Amorphous Inner: An Action-Theoretical Approach to Psychoanalysis.- 8. The Quest for Meaning: Exploring Action-Theoretical Life Philosophy.- 9. The Power of Symbols: Navigating Existential Themes Through Poetic Dialogue.- 10. Ongoing Narration in the Works of Hermann Hesse: The Trace of the Nature, You, and Departure Fantasm.- . Dialogues in Cultural Psychology: Between Boesch, Bruner, and Valsiner (Postface).- . Appendix A: English Translation of Welcome and Farewell by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1874).- . Appendix B: STEPS by Hermann Hesse and translated by Gonzalez-Trejos).- . Appendix C: Sterben und Auferstehn (Matthias Claudius).