Name: Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (en Inglés)
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Author: Marsico, Giuseppina ; Tateo, Luca

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Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Information Age Publishing

Autor

Marsico, Giuseppina ; Tateo, Luca

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

318

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x1.9 cm

Peso

0.62 kg.

ISBN13

9781641136839

Categorías

Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
Psicología social, grupal o colectiva
Psicología: emociones

Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (en Inglés)

Marsico, Giuseppina ; Tateo, Luca (Autor) · Information Age Publishing · Tapa Dura

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The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People's life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful?In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of "ordinary" and "extraordinary" follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon "things" is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.