A Dialogical Approach to Creativity

✍ Scribed by Mônica Souza Neves-Pereira, Marina Assis Pinheiro

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes an epistemological and theoretical stance in investigating the phenomenon of creativity and its processes. Creativity is analyzed through the lens of cultural psychology, in which psychological processes emerge over the course of life, and can only be understood in relation to the subject’s history and life experiences. Dialogism is presented as central for the constitutive dynamics of the developing subject and the emergence of creative actions through the expression of human agency. The authors highlight Bakhtinian dialogism and its developments in the scientific field of psychology and related areas to shed new light on creativity and its processes. The authors argue this will enable a better understanding of creativity in its development and emergence, and its impact on individuals and society. 

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1: Introduction
References
2: Creativity and Dialogism
What Creativity Are We Talking About?
Creating Is a Psychological, Social and Material Phenomenon
Creating Is a Collective Act That Only Occurs in Alterity
Creating Is a Culturally Mediated Act
Creating Is a Situated, Contextualized and Perspective Phenomenon
Creating Is a Dialogical Process
Regarding the Bakhtinian Dialogism
Final Considerations
References
3: Dialogical Intersubjectivity in Creative Processes: A Theoretical Reflection
Introduction: Creativity Is Intersubjective
Otherness and Intersubjectivity: A Starting Point
Bakhtinian Foundations for the Epistemology of Intersubjectivity
Bakhtin in Dialogue: Contributions of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology to the Dialogical Foundations of Intersubjectivity
Trust, Corporeality and Signification: Intersubjectivity in the Psychic Dynamics of Creativity
Corporeality and Perspective: Sensitivity as the Basis of Perspectivation of the World
The Dynamics of Meaning in the Self-Other-World Relationship
Affectivity and Trust in Creative Intersubjectivity
For the Sake of an Illustration: The Confinement Diaries of the Ingra Case
References
4: Creativity as Resistance for Survival: The Anticolonial Indigenous Rap Group “Oz Guarani”
Intro
Circumstances and Objective
Theoretical Background
Jaraguá Indigenous Land Context
(Indigenous) Rap
Birth of the Oz Guarani Group
Discussion
Final Considerations
References
5: The Birth of Metaphors in the Northeastern Repente Music: A Proposal for Dialogical Analysis in the Study of Creative Processes
The Repente Music as an Object of Study of Creative Processes in Psychology
Viola Singing as a Poetic Dialogue
A Discussion on Metaphor for the Study of the Emergence of the Novelty
The Construction of the Empirical Data in the Life Context of the Repentista
The Four-Axis Analysis Proposal
Excerpt from the Pre-Singing Interview
Excerpt from the Commented Exhibition Interview—Post-singing
Final Considerations
References
6: Creativity, Self-Development and Human Values: A Dialogical Perspective on Promoting a Democratic World
Culture and Creativity
Culture, Dialogical Self System and Ontogenesis of Values: The Role of Hypergeneralized Affective-Semiotic Fields
The Dialogical Self System and its Development
Hypergeneralized Affective-Semiotic Fields: Values and Prejudices
Creativity, Affect and Motivation
Autonomy, Cooperation and Agency: The Power of a Dialogical Paradigm
Creativity, Values, and the Dialogical Self: Pathways for the Co-Construction of Democracies
Conclusions
References
7: The Soul of the Creative Process: A Commentary by a Cannibal
Conclusion: Creativity Requires Disorganization in Order to Arrive at New Organization
References
8: Deepening the Dimensions of Dialogism: Conceptual Linkages
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References
Index