New Perspectives on Inner Speech

Inner speech has been a focus of multidisciplinary interest. It is a long-standing phenomenon of study in philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. Researchers from different disciplines have turned their efforts to understand this inherent experience of being "talking to oneself". In psychology, Vygotsky managed to develop a complete description of the phenomenon, giving rise to a great line of research related to inner speech in the human experience.

Including a compilation of theoretical and empirical advances related to inner speech phenomenon, this book is aimed at academics and researchers in the area of psychology, education and culture. This book will be of interest to international research programs, related to cultural psychology, socio-constructivism, developmental psychology and education.

Valuable text for researches and students across a range of disciplines Provides a theoretical and empirical update on the phenomenon of inner speech Brings together leading researchers around the world who have investigated the inner speech phenomenon

Autorentext

Pablo Fossa is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He received a PhD degree in Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He later held a postdoctoral position financed by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of Chile, with a research project on thought trajectories from a microgenetic orientation. His research lines are related to Cognition, Cultural Psychology and Phenomenology. He is also an active member of the Society for Historical Cultural Activity Research (ISCAR), International Society for Dialogical Self (ISDS) and International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP). Currently, he is PhD candidate in Philosophy at Universidad de Navarra, Spain.

Inhalt
Introduction.- PART I.- Chapter 1: Reflective and Pre-reflective Inner Speech.- Chapter 2: The constitution of the identity and the role of the otherness: Arguments from psychoanalysis and cultural psychology in order to consider the inner speech.- Chapter 3: Inner Speech: Living Materiality of Incessant Formations.- Chapter 4 The institution of interior life.- PART II EMPIRICAL ADVANCES ON INNER SPEECH.- Chapter 5: Discursive markers of subjectivity in inner biographical speech.- Chapter 6: An Experimental Phenomenological study.- PART III Final Comments.- Conclusion.