Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 11a, Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, Building 3, Tbilisi, 0179, Georgia.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2021 Sep;55(3):445-469. doi: 10.1007/s12124-021-09603-1. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
This paper explores proculturative semiotic dynamics underlying self-construction in emigration that reveals various forms of the self's positioning through the processes of relating to the native and foreign socio-cultural environments. The self is conceptualised as the heterogeneous entirety of voices and self-related positions which are hierarchically organised. Hierarchical organisation implies the dominance of certain voices and I-positions at the expense of silencing others. Moreover, external societal voices promote hegemonic social representations which are represented as promoter I-positions/signs in the self-structures and have the power to regulate individuals' mental activity. Therefore, it is argued that selves' relations to the environment are not always symmetrically dialogical. The compelling power of hierarchically ordered external meaning systems that are conceptualised as "objective culture" is illustrated in the best manner when a person occurs in emigration where the native organisation of voices and I-positions is being semiotically ruptured due to the meeting with a foreign configuration of a hierarchy of external I-positions and gets "attacked" by alien promoter signs. External promoter voices and I-positions have the power to take the dominant position and establish asymmetric relations with other self-related elements. They can significantly influence intra-psychological negotiations by vocalising hegemonic social representations which exist in any community. The case study of a Georgian emigrant's living in Germany vividly reveals the wave of self-transformations which she undergoes after the liberation from the pressure of native promoter signs and engagement with the German ones. Specific microgenetic experiences leading to the transformations at the ontogenetic level are highlighted. Symmetric and asymmetric forms of communication are conceived as particular instances of relating. This paper vividly reveals the significance of the exploration of the forms of dynamic relations between various components of the self and socio-cultural environment and entailing intra-psychic and external negotiations for better understanding of the nature of humans' epigenetic development.
本文探讨了移民背景下自我建构背后的前文化符号动力学，通过与本土和外国社会文化环境的关系过程揭示了自我定位的各种形式。自我被概念化为异质的声音和自我相关立场的整体，这些声音和自我相关立场是按等级组织的。等级组织意味着某些声音和 I-立场的主导地位，而牺牲了其他声音和 I-立场的表达。此外，外部社会声音促进了霸权社会表征，这些社会表征表现为自我结构中的推动者 I-立场/符号，并具有调节个体心理活动的权力。因此，可以说，自我与环境的关系并不总是对称的对话。当一个人处于移民状态时，外部按等级组织的意义系统的强制性力量得到了最好的体现，因为他们的本土声音和 I-立场的组织由于与外国的外部 I-立场等级结构的相遇而被符号学地打破，并受到陌生的推动者符号的“攻击”。外部推动者声音和 I-立场具有占据主导地位并与其他自我相关元素建立不对称关系的权力。它们可以通过发出存在于任何社区中的霸权社会表征，对内部心理协商产生重大影响。一个格鲁吉亚移民在德国生活的案例研究生动地揭示了她在摆脱本土推动者符号的压力并与德国符号接触后经历的自我转变浪潮。突出了导致个体发生水平上转变的具体微观发生经验。对称和不对称的交流形式被视为关系的特殊实例。本文生动地揭示了探索自我与社会文化环境各个组成部分之间的动态关系形式的重要性，并需要进行内部和外部协商，以更好地理解人类表观遗传发展的性质。
