@article{32156,
  abstract     = {{How do ideas come into being? Our contribution takes its starting point in an observation
we made in empirical data from a prior study. The data center around an instant of an
academic writer’s thinking during the revision of a scientific paper. Through a detailed
discourse-oriented micro-analysis, we zoom in on the writer’s thinking activity and uncover
the genesis of a complex idea through a sequence of interrelated moments. These
moments feature different degrees of “crystallization” of the idea; from gestures, a sketch,
a short written note, oral explanations to a final spelled-out written argument. For this
contribution, we re-analyze the material, asking how the idea gets formed during the
thinking process and how it reaches a tangible form, which is understandable both for
the thinker and for other persons. We root our analysis in a notion of language as social,
embodied, and dialogical activity, drawing on concepts from Humboldt, Jakubinskij, and
Vygotsky. We focus our analysis on three conceptual nodes. The first node is the ebbing
and 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       = {{Karsten, Andrea and Bertau, Marie-Cécile}},
  journal      = {{Frontiers in Psychology}},
  keywords     = {{idea formation, language activity, objectification, intrapersonal intertextuality, articulation, Jakubinskij, Vygotsky, Humboldt}},
  title        = {{{How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual moments in grades of objectification and publicness}}},
  doi          = {{10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355}},
  volume       = {{10}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}

@article{32158,
  abstract     = {{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       = {{Bertau, Marie-Cécile and Karsten, Andrea}},
  issn         = {{0732-118X}},
  journal      = {{New Ideas in Psychology}},
  keywords     = {{Interiorization, Dialogical self, Language activity, Voice, Vygotsky, Heterotopia, Video-confrontation}},
  pages        = {{7--17}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier BV}},
  title        = {{{Reconsidering interiorization: Self moving across language spacetimes}}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.12.001}},
  volume       = {{49}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}