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Commentary: Accessing the Experience of a Dialogical Self: Some Needs and Concerns

University of Minho and ISMAI, Portugal, ccunha{at}ismai.pt

Miguel M. Gonçalves

University of Minho, Portugal, mgoncalves{at}iep.uminho.pt

This commentary focuses on König's (2009) work as an opportunity to elaborate on selfhood as a dynamic and dialogical phenomenon. We depart from Bakhtinian dialogism and dialogical self theory to focus on the dynamics of selfhood processes and draw a more explicit theoretical link between the dialogical self and phenomenological experience. The interconnected dimensions of discontinuity and continuity in a multiple, multipositioned self are also elaborated. We defend that the construction of similitude in the self is permitted by self-regulation and self-organization processes that create recurring patterns in a moving self. Finally, the role that the introduction of difference and alterity can play in the promotion of change and development is also discussed.

Key Words: change • dialogical self • experience • self-organization

Culture & Psychology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 120-133 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X08099618


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