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Sensuality in Human Living

The Cultural Psychology of Affect

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Authors:
  1. Jaan Valsiner

    1. Psychologie and Communication, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark

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  • Provides a new theory of aesthetic synthesis

  • Demonstrates the links between art and science

  • Provides a new understanding of the role of affect in human cognition

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology (BRIEFSTHEORET)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Living by Affective Hyper-Generalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Theory of the Dynamic Sublime

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 3-22

    3. Embodiment in Action: The Making of the Body

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      Pages 23-34

  3. Feeling into the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. The Romantic Encounters

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 37-44

    3. Sensuality in Seeing Through

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 45-58

  4. Theoretical Proliferations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Sensuality In-Between: Dialogical Negotiation of Feeling Fields

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 61-69

    3. Hierarchical Integration of Human Psychological Needs

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      Pages 71-79

  5. General Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Sensual Living in Affectivated Worlds

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 83-86

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 87-103
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About this book

This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices.  It unites art and science into a new theory of affective synthesis that human minds are constantly involved in their everyday life worlds.

  • Provides a new theory of aesthetic synthesis;
  • Demonstrates the links between art and science;
  • Provides a new understanding of the role of affect in human cognition.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Psychologie and Communication, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark

    Jaan Valsiner

About the author

Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. From 2013 to 2018 he was the Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark where he continues his research on cultural psychology, in combination with collaboration with University of Luxembourg and Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien in Austria and in Berlin. He has published and edited more than 40 books, the most pertinent of which are The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),  Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), Invitation to Cultural Psychology (London: Sage, 2014) and Ornamented Lives (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers, 2018).  He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development. Previously while working in the United States he was a recipient of a Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.  Since 2017 he is a Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.  

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