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Psychologia narracyjna o rozwoju
Narrative Psychology of Development

Author(s): Elżbieta Dryll
Subject(s): Individual Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: developmental theories; development of narrative competence; the importance of the word in development;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is theoretical in nature. It considers the issue of development from the point of view of narrative psychology, organized according to three theses. The psychological world of a person is a unique semantic construction of meaningful elements drawn from the culture (including values, patterns of reasoning, personality patterns, develop- mental narratives, and other narratives). In undisturbed psycho-biological functioning, the acquisition of basic meanings occurs in the communicative environment of a developing organism (in the process of interaction with loved ones) primarily through language. At the advanced level – thanks to autobiographical reflexivity – a person can consciously direct his or her own development, minimizing some limitations: both biological (e.g. changes that come at an older age) and environmental determinism (possible distancing from selected cultural contents).

  • Issue Year: 28/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 11-20
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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