The аutobiographic narrative in the context of cultural-historical psychology

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Abstract

The phenomenon of narration within the framework of cultural-historical approach is substantiated as a fundamental component of social interaction. The author suggests the understanding of the process of creation of autobiographic arrative as cognitive combination of cultural prototypes and narrative forms with the sequence of individual life episodes. The acquaintance of the developing subject with the texts of culture is presented as one of the key aspects of cultural sociogenesis. The autonarration is considered as the mechanism of self-understanding and self-creation of the subject. Several possible forms of autonarration are listed. The autobiographic narrative, simultaneously told (created) by the subject and read by him/herself as an alienated product, surpasses the polysemy in favor of the subject’s choice made here and now, and thus accomplishes emotional, motivational, cognitive and therapeutic functions. The construction of autobiography is not only summarizing the past, but also some planning of the future.

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Keywords: cultural-historical theory, interaction, sign, meaning, concept, text, context, narrative, event, autobiography, subject, sociogenesis

Journal rubric: Theory and Methodology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Sapogova E.E. The аutobiographic narrative in the context of cultural-historical psychology. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2005. Vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 63–74. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Elena E. Sapogova, Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Professor, member of the editorial board of the journal “Cultural-Historical Psychology”., Moscow, Russia, e-mail: esapogova@yandex.ru

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