---
_id: '32156'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "How do ideas come into being? Our contribution takes its starting point in
an observation\r\nwe made in empirical data from a prior study. The data center
around an instant of an\r\nacademic writer’s thinking during the revision of a
scientific paper. Through a detailed\r\ndiscourse-oriented micro-analysis, we
zoom in on the writer’s thinking activity and uncover\r\nthe genesis of a complex
idea through a sequence of interrelated moments. These\r\nmoments feature different
degrees of “crystallization” of the idea; from gestures, a sketch,\r\na short
written note, oral explanations to a final spelled-out written argument. For this\r\ncontribution,
we re-analyze the material, asking how the idea gets formed during the\r\nthinking
process and how it reaches a tangible form, which is understandable both for\r\nthe
thinker and for other persons. We root our analysis in a notion of language as
social,\r\nembodied, and dialogical activity, drawing on concepts from Humboldt,
Jakubinskij, and\r\nVygotsky. We focus our analysis on three conceptual nodes.
The first node is the ebbing\r\nand advancing of language in idea formation –
observable as a trajectory through linguistically more condensed or more expanded
utterance forms. The second node is the degree of objectification that the idea
reaches when it is performed differently in a variety of addressivity constellations,
i.e., whether and how it becomes understandable to the thinker and to others in
the social sphere. Finally, the third node is the saturation of the idea through
what we call intrapersonal intertextuality, i.e., its complex and dialogically
related re-articulations in a sequence of formative moments. With these considerations,
we articulate a clear consequence for theorizing thinking. We hold that thinking
is social, embodied, and dialogically organized because it is entangled with language.
Ideas come into being and become understandable and communicable to other persons
only by and within their different, yet, intertextually related formations."
author:
- first_name: Andrea
full_name: Karsten, Andrea
id: '53917'
last_name: Karsten
orcid: 0000-0003-0194-2000
- first_name: Marie-Cécile
full_name: Bertau, Marie-Cécile
last_name: Bertau
citation:
ama: 'Karsten A, Bertau M-C. How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual moments
in grades of objectification and publicness. Frontiers in Psychology. 2019;10.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355'
apa: 'Karsten, A., & Bertau, M.-C. (2019). How ideas come into being: Tracing
intertextual moments in grades of objectification and publicness. Frontiers
in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355'
bibtex: '@article{Karsten_Bertau_2019, title={How ideas come into being: Tracing
intertextual moments in grades of objectification and publicness}, volume={10},
DOI={10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355},
journal={Frontiers in Psychology}, author={Karsten, Andrea and Bertau, Marie-Cécile},
year={2019} }'
chicago: 'Karsten, Andrea, and Marie-Cécile Bertau. “How Ideas Come into Being:
Tracing Intertextual Moments in Grades of Objectification and Publicness.” Frontiers
in Psychology 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355.'
ieee: 'A. Karsten and M.-C. Bertau, “How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual
moments in grades of objectification and publicness,” Frontiers in Psychology,
vol. 10, 2019, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355.'
mla: 'Karsten, Andrea, and Marie-Cécile Bertau. “How Ideas Come into Being: Tracing
Intertextual Moments in Grades of Objectification and Publicness.” Frontiers
in Psychology, vol. 10, 2019, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355.'
short: A. Karsten, M.-C. Bertau, Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019).
date_created: 2022-06-24T14:27:04Z
date_updated: 2023-12-21T08:42:58Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355
intvolume: ' 10'
keyword:
- idea formation
- language activity
- objectification
- intrapersonal intertextuality
- articulation
- Jakubinskij
- Vygotsky
- Humboldt
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
publication: Frontiers in Psychology
publication_status: published
status: public
title: 'How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual moments in grades of objectification
and publicness'
type: journal_article
user_id: '53917'
volume: 10
year: '2019'
...
---
_id: '32158'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Sociogenesis addresses a pervasive problem in psychology given by Cartesian
dualism that assigns the mental an inner locus apart from material activity. Aligning
ourselves to the ongoing critical discussions of interiorization in psychology,
we explore the crucial notion of space by highlighting language as sociocultural
and dialogical activity performed by other-oriented individuals. We discuss space
in terms of the “language spacetime”, a symbolic, embodied formation of mutually
positioned speaking and listening selves. This leads beyond the “inside-outside”
container metaphor and allows for a reformulation of interiorization. Interiorization
is conceptualized as a continuous series of different, though mutually related
movements between self and other and self and self that lead to and are supported
by specific formations in language activity: reversion, transposition, and decoupling.
Along a short passage of a video-based interview, we trace the reversion of dialogical
positions within the addressivity constellation of the two interlocutors, their
interactive creation of a heterotopic spacetime, and the decoupling of one speaker''s
psychological activity from the concrete here-and-now and the present other by
moving and acting into this new sphere. Interiorization appears as a movement
at the border of past, present, and possible future(s).'
author:
- first_name: Marie-Cécile
full_name: Bertau, Marie-Cécile
last_name: Bertau
- first_name: Andrea
full_name: Karsten, Andrea
id: '53917'
last_name: Karsten
citation:
ama: 'Bertau M-C, Karsten A. Reconsidering interiorization: Self moving across language
spacetimes. New Ideas in Psychology. 2018;49:7-17. doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001'
apa: 'Bertau, M.-C., & Karsten, A. (2018). Reconsidering interiorization: Self
moving across language spacetimes. New Ideas in Psychology, 49,
7–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001'
bibtex: '@article{Bertau_Karsten_2018, title={Reconsidering interiorization: Self
moving across language spacetimes}, volume={49}, DOI={10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001},
journal={New Ideas in Psychology}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Bertau, Marie-Cécile
and Karsten, Andrea}, year={2018}, pages={7–17} }'
chicago: 'Bertau, Marie-Cécile, and Andrea Karsten. “Reconsidering Interiorization:
Self Moving across Language Spacetimes.” New Ideas in Psychology 49 (2018):
7–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001.'
ieee: 'M.-C. Bertau and A. Karsten, “Reconsidering interiorization: Self moving
across language spacetimes,” New Ideas in Psychology, vol. 49, pp. 7–17,
2018, doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001.'
mla: 'Bertau, Marie-Cécile, and Andrea Karsten. “Reconsidering Interiorization:
Self Moving across Language Spacetimes.” New Ideas in Psychology, vol.
49, Elsevier BV, 2018, pp. 7–17, doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001.'
short: M.-C. Bertau, A. Karsten, New Ideas in Psychology 49 (2018) 7–17.
date_created: 2022-06-24T14:41:20Z
date_updated: 2022-07-18T09:21:16Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001
intvolume: ' 49'
keyword:
- Interiorization
- Dialogical self
- Language activity
- Voice
- Vygotsky
- Heterotopia
- Video-confrontation
language:
- iso: eng
page: 7-17
publication: New Ideas in Psychology
publication_identifier:
issn:
- 0732-118X
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
status: public
title: 'Reconsidering interiorization: Self moving across language spacetimes'
type: journal_article
user_id: '42165'
volume: 49
year: '2018'
...