Oh! I had printed out other papers by Mikeal you had suggested and totally
forgot that one,
Jonna. MANY thanks.
I have now sent out a welcome message to those who I know are interested in
following the readings
and participating in the discussion. If I have missed you please send a note
to me directly at
lchcmike@gmail.com and I will add you. Action should start Friday pacific
time, US.
mike
On 1/9/06, kangasoj@mappi.helsinki.fi <kangasoj@mappi.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Mary,
>
> Mikeal Leiman from the University of Joensuu in Finland has been working
> quite a long time with object relations theory and activity theory, taking
> special interest on the concept of sign and semiotic mediation. He
> practices
> and does research on psychotherapy.
>
> You can start from his article 'The concept of sign in the work of
> Vygotsky,
> Winnicot and Bahtin' in the 1999 'Perspectives on Activity
> Theory. Learning in doing...' (Cambridge University Press) book. The
> article
> is placed in the fourth section on 'Theraby and addiction', but it is a
> fully theoretical piece.
>
> Have a look at http://www.joensuu.fi/Noot/ML/
>
> You can find e.g. a full version of his article 'Toward Semiotic
> Dialogism:
> The role of sign-mediation in dialogical self' was in Theory and
> Psychology
> in 2002, from the web page http://www.joensuu.fi/Noot/ML/Dialogism.htm
>
> With warm wishes for the new year,
>
> Jonna
>
>
>
> Quoting "Mary K. Bryson" <mary.bryson@ubc.ca>:
>
> > I was thinking about this very thing this morning, reading the
> definition
> > of
> > Activity Theory on wikipedia... And it occurred to me as I presented one
> > of
> > the many variants of the triangle to the students in my brand new
> > sociocultural theory class, that there is an odd disconnect between
> > activity
> > theory, and its attendant notions of goal-directed actions and the
> > importance of objects, and object-relations theory, and its critical
> > focus
> > on the psychological and constitutive value of objects. Maybe there is
> > some
> > really well known piece of work out there that brings these two threads
> > together, but if there is -- (a) I don't know what it is (not
> > surprizing)
> > and (b) I would love to read it, so please tell me about it.
> >
> > The affective and psychic -- that is, subjectivity -- pieces of activity
> > theory seem really short-sighted and overly rational, which is where
> > object-relations seems to have a lot to offer, and yet rarely be cited
> > by
> > socioculturalists...
> >
> > Sunday musings,
> >
> > Mary (Happy New Year)
> > PS> I was going to propose to moderate/coordinate a discussion of a
> > reading
> > in February, but I think with the generous offer of participation by
> Mike
> > in
> > his mediational theories course, that perhaps I should hold off until
> May
> > or
> > so?
>
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