Hubert Hermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 286430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hubert Hermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hubert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermans |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8387-0671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Education and dialogical self: State of art ( Educación y yo dialógico: estado de la cuestión )
The introduction of the Dialogical Self Theory in the field of education has not received the recognition it deserves. In this article we intend to prove the importance of research in DST, reviewing its main contributions to the psychology of education for the past decade. To this end, we have organized it into three thematic areas: dialogical teaching and learning processes, professional identity in different educational levels, and studies pert…
Citizenship Education and the Personalization of Democracy
The core message of this educational book is that democracy is, more than ever before, in need of the personal contribution of engaged citizens. Democracy is viable only if it is rooted in the hearts and minds of citizens who feel responsible not only for their own well-being, but also for the quality of social relationships in a society with marked differences in race, religion, culture, and gender. Three basic features define personalized democ…
Foreword by Hubert Hermans
When a society becomes more complex and heterogeneous, the identity of teachers "is also chal-lenged to become more complex and heterogeneous. The school, as a reflection of society, needs flexible educators, capable of adapting to change. From the perspective of Dialogical Self Theory, this flexibility translates into the need to adopt a multiplicity of positions of the self as involved in permanent dialogue. These I-positions have the quality o…
Positioning and Democracy in the Self
An expanded position model is presented that enables to study the following features of the self as society: meta-positions as “leadership” positions in the self, offering a broad and long-term scope in a multipositioned, democratically organized self; promoter positions stimulating its further development; power distance and emotional distance as basic dimensions in the mini-society of the self; the accessibility of I- positions allowing a free …
Positioning and Democracy in Teams and Organizations
On the basis of a review of literature, the impact of groupthink and the importance of a democratic atmosphere in teams are discussed. An example of leadership in teams is provided by the interaction between a successful coach and his team during a soccer world championship. Leadership on the level of the organization is explored by giving the example of two merging organizations and their problematic cooperation. Leadership on the level of a wor…
The Dynamics of Society-in-the-Self
In the field of tension between globalization and localization, a set of new phenomena is emerging showing that society is not simply a social environment of self and identity but works in their deepest regions: self-radicalization, self-government, self-cure, self-nationalization, self-internationalization, and even self-marriage. The consequence is that the self is faced with an unprecedented density of self-parts, called I- positions in this t…
Heterogenizing and Enriching the Self
A central feature of a democratic self is its heterogeneity, expressed in its diversity of positions and richness of experience. Heterogeneity is explored by examining three phenomena: the multiplicity of subjective well-being; the polarity between shadow and shining positions in the self; and the dynamic relationship between comfort, challenge and danger zones in the self-space. The existence of shadow positions is elaborated by a discussion of …
Society in the Self: A Theory of Identity in Democracy
In this book, Hubert Hermans, internationally known as the creator of the dialogical self theory, launches a new and original theory in which he links society with the most intimate regions of self and identity. The basic assumption is that the self is organized as an inner society that is simultaneously functioning as part of the society at large as exemplified by developments like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, …
Fields of Tension in a Boundary-Crossing World: Towards a Democratic Organization of the Self
In their study of the relationship between self and society, scientists have proposed taking society as a metaphor for understanding the dynamics of the self, such as the analogy between the self and the functioning of a totalitarian state or the analogy between the self and the functioning of a bureaucratic organization. In addition to these models, the present article proposes a democratic society as a metaphor for understanding the workings of…
Dialogical Self Theory and the increasing multiplicity of I-positions in a globalizing society: An introduction
Dialogical Self Theory is a recent development in the social sciences, based on a conception of the self as a society of mind. In this conception, the self is considered as extended to significant others in the environment, who populate the self as a dynamic multiplicity of I-positions between which dialogical or monological relationships may emerge. While from a spatial perspective the self is engaged in a process of positioning and counterposit…
Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society
In a boundary-crossing and globalizing world, the personal and social positions in self and identity become increasingly dense, heterogeneous and even conflicting. In this handbook scholars of different disciplines, nations and cultures (East and West) bring together their views and applications of dialogical self theory in such a way that deeper commonalities are brought to the surface. As a 'bridging theory', dialogical self theory reveals unex…
Contents, Vol. 35, 1992
Health and Adaptation in a Multiple Self: The Role of Absence of Dialogue and Poor Metacognition in Clinical Populations
It has been suggested recently that the self consists of multifaceted aspects which are not reducible to a singular core or entity. It is unclear whether the degree of multiplicity that individuals with significant pathology experience is linked with health and adaptation. Both an excess and a restricted degree of activity among multiple aspects of the self have been associated with pathology. We explore the evidence that the impact of degree of …
Telling and Retelling One’s Self-Narrative: A Contextual Approach to Life-Span Development
In the context of a contextual or narrative metamodel of life-span development, a method of self-investigation is described. The method enables a person to tell his or her life story to a psychologist in a way that results in an overview of valuations, including moral valuations, referring to the person’s past, present, and future. This process reveals the affective and motivational characteristics of the storyteller and leads to changes in (a re…
Self, Identity, and Globalization in Times of Uncertainty: A Dialogical Analysis
Our era is witnessing an increasing impact of globalization on self and identity and at the same time a growing uncertainty. The experience of uncertainty motivates individuals and groups to find local niches for identity construction. This article's central tenet is that the processes of globalization and localization, as globalization's counterforce, require a dialogical conceptualization of self and identity in which global and local voices ar…
Introduction: The Dialogical Self in a Global and Digital Age
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The Construction and Reconstruction of a Dialogical Self
Many contemporary conceptions of the self are, often unwittingly, based on Cartesian notions of the mind as individualized, ahistorical, noncultural, disembodied, and centralized. In opposition to these assumptions, the dialogical self is conceived of as socialized, historical, cultural, embodied, and decentralized. Based on these theoretical considerations, a method is sketched for the assessment and change of the organization of the Personal Po…
Clinical Diagnosis as a Multiplicity of Self-Positions: Challenging Social Representations Theory
This contribution is written as a challenge to Schmitz, Filippone and Edelman's (2003) analysis of the clinical diagnosis ADHD from the perspective of social representations theory. The focus of the present article is on the implications of a clinical diagnosis for the organization and reorganization of the self. As an illustrative example, a client is presented who seemed to be 'enslaved' to the diagnosis depression, incorporating it as a centra…
The Dialogical Self as a Society of Mind: Introduction
The Dialogical Self as a Society of Mind: Introduction
The dialogical self works as a society with oppositions, conflicts, negotiations, cooperation and coalitions between positions. As society becomes more heterogeneous, more relatively autonomous spatial domains emerge in the self. Like a society, the self is based on two principles: intersubjective exchange and social domination. The article briefly discusses the different contributions in the light of the developing theory
Mixing and Moving Cultures Require a Dialogical Self
Rational selfMore than ever in human history, we live in an era of immigration, traveling, dias-pora, intercultural contact, and globalization. These phenomena reflect a world order inwhich cultural groups, with their particular histories and memories, are increasinglymoving and mixing to a degree which is unprecedented in human history. As Bhatia andRam convincingly argue, this process puts into question the universalist assumption incross-cultu…
The Construction of a Personal Position Repertoire: Method and Practice
In the light of the preceding article (Hermans, 2001), a new method, the Personal Position Repertoire (PPR), is presented that can be used in research and practice. The method is illustrated with several actual case studies showing the different parts and steps of the method to be followed. Special emphasis is given to the organization and reorganization of the position repertoire, to the implied meaning units and their affective connotations. Th…
The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning
The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept of culture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin, the proposed view challenges both the idea of a core, essential self and the idea of a core, essential culture. In apparent contradiction with such a view, the present viewpoint pro…
Valuation, Innovation and Critical Personalism
Some of the central parts of Stem's philosophy of values are discussed: (a) the transcendence of Cartesian dualism between self and other by his conception of I-world relationship; (b) the reconciliation of absolutism and relativism by the introduction of his concept of self-value (Selbstwert); and (c) the impact of social interaction on value formation by his distinction between centered values (of a particular person) and excentered values (of …
The Coherence of Incoherent Narratives
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The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning
The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept of culture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin, the proposed view challenges both the idea of a core, essential self and the idea of a core, essential culture. In apparent contradiction with such a view, the present viewpoint pro…
The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism
Voicing the self: From information processing to dialogical interchange
Dialogue implies an interchange between mutually influencing voices. Two metaphors playing a major role in contemporary research are analyzed from such a perspective: the computer metaphor, in which the self is studied as an information-processing device, and the narrative metaphor, in which, story and storytelling are guiding principles for the self. It is argued that, on the metaphorical level, the computer and the narrative analogy allow voice…
The Construction of a Personal Position Repertoire: Method and Practice
In the light of the preceding article (Hermans, 2001), a new method, the Personal Position Repertoire (PPR), is presented that can be used in research and practice. The method is illustrated with several actual case studies showing the different parts and steps of the method to be followed. Special emphasis is given to the organization and reorganization of the position repertoire, to the implied meaning units and their affective connotations. Th…
Dialogical Thinking and Self-Innovation
In the tradition of American pragmatism, theorists like James, Mead and Allport have emphasized the self's capacity for change and innovation. In the tradition of the Russian dialogical school, Bakhtin and his co-workers have dealt with the relationship between dialogue and innovation. These two traditions are brought together in the concept of the 'dialogical self', which is taken as the starting point for an empirical investigation. 103 partici…
Fields of Tension in a Boundary-Crossing World: Towards a Democratic Organization of the Self
In their study of the relationship between self and society, scientists have proposed taking society as a metaphor for understanding the dynamics of the self, such as the analogy between the self and the functioning of a totalitarian state or the analogy between the self and the functioning of a bureaucratic organization. In addition to these models, the present article proposes a democratic society as a metaphor for understanding the workings of…
Introduction: The Dialogical Self in a Global and Digital Age
n Contains fulltext :\n 64495.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Achievement motivation and fear of failure in family and school
Clinical Diagnosis as a Multiplicity of Self-Positions: Challenging Social Representations Theory
This contribution is written as a challenge to Schmitz, Filippone and Edelman's (2003) analysis of the clinical diagnosis ADHD from the perspective of social representations theory. The focus of the present article is on the implications of a clinical diagnosis for the organization and reorganization of the self. As an illustrative example, a client is presented who seemed to be 'enslaved' to the diagnosis depression, incorporating it as a centra…
Moving Opposites in the Self A Heraclitean Approach: A Heraclitean approach
Theory and method are presented for the investigation of opposites in personal experience, with particular attention to their unification. The strategy is to invite people to relate actively two strongly contrasting experiences (meaning units) and to combine these into a third unit. Three idiographic studies are reported showing that the third meaning unit, created by the subjects, shifts towards another pair of polar opposites. This phenomenon, …
The Innovative Potentials of Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogical History: Comment on Lyra
The dream in the process of valuation: A method of interpretation
This article contains theory and a description of a method for dream interpretation. In this theory, the person is seen as a historic process, oriented from a certain point in time and space to the past, present, and future. As this orientation varies, different valuations emerge; a valuation is a meaning unit seen by the person as particularly relevant. In line with the apparent continuity of the dream and the waking state, a distinction is made…
The Coherence of Incoherent Narratives
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Commonalities in Boesch and Murray: Bridging between a European and an American Thinker
Six commonalities in the work of Ernst Boesch and Henry Murray are outlined: a holistic approach to the study of personality; a systematic elaboration of the person-situation interaction; an incorporation of psychoanalytic elements into their theoretical thinking; an emphasis on the cultural foundations of personality; and an intense affinity with novelistic literature. The main part of this article is devoted to the sixth commonality: Boesch's a…
Midlife Crisis in Men: Affective Organization of Personal Meanings
The purpose of this article is to explore the specific affective organization of personal meanings in midlife crisis in men. Midlife crisis is described as a process of intensive transition of the self including the reinterpretation of time perspective, reevaluation of life values and goals, confrontation with death as a personal event in the future, and planning of the second half of life. Personal meanings referring to past, present, and future…
Science between Cooperation and Competition: Commentaryon Hurme
According to Hurme's (1997) production metaphor, competition among researchers plays a central role in scientific enterprise. I argue that competition cannot be excluded from scientific practice and should actually be considered as a significant motivational force. My main thesis, however, is that the production metaphor is blind to the scientific process as a cooperative enterprise guided by a specific set of values. Even in an era in which scie…
The fugit amor experience in the process of valuation: A self‐confrontation with an unreachable other
This article shows the close relationship between self and other and has its focus on the fugit amor metaphor, i.e. the loving orientation to another person or object which is or has become unreachable. A self‐confrontation method which invites a person to self‐reflection on his or her everyday situation is described in detail. In applying this method in a group of clients, it was found that about 30 per cent of the people showed one or more fugi…
The Validity of Different Strategies of Scale Construction in Predicting Academic Achievement
Achievement motivation and fear of failure in family and school
The fugit amor experience in the process of valuation: A self‐confrontation with an unreachable other
This article shows the close relationship between self and other and has its focus on the fugit amor metaphor, i.e. the loving orientation to another person or object which is or has become unreachable. A self‐confrontation method which invites a person to self‐reflection on his or her everyday situation is described in detail. In applying this method in a group of clients, it was found that about 30 per cent of the people showed one or more fugi…
The dream in the process of valuation: A method of interpretation
This article contains theory and a description of a method for dream interpretation. In this theory, the person is seen as a historic process, oriented from a certain point in time and space to the past, present, and future. As this orientation varies, different valuations emerge; a valuation is a meaning unit seen by the person as particularly relevant. In line with the apparent continuity of the dream and the waking state, a distinction is made…
On the Integration of Nomothetic and Idiographic Research Methods in the Study of Personal Meaning
This study presents the technique of self‐investigation as a research tool for the study of personal meaning from the perspective of the general and the particular After reviewing the nomothesis‐idiography debate, I argue that personality psychology can benefit from a combination of nomothetic and idiographic research methodologies This creates a need for new theoretical frameworks that incorporate both nomo‐concepts, enabling the study of people…
The personal meaning of symbols: A method of investigation
The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism
The Person as an Active Participant in Psychological Research
Imaginal Dialogues in the Self: Theory and Method
The story a person tells about his or her life is viewed as a polyphonic novel. This metaphor implies that the self is multivoiced; that is, there is no single “I” as an agent of self‐organization but several, relatively independent “I” positions that complement and contradict each other in dialogical relationships. From this perspective the role ofimaginal figures in the organization of the self is analyzed. A theory and method are presented all…
Moving Opposites in the Self A Heraclitean Approach: A Heraclitean approach
Theory and method are presented for the investigation of opposites in personal experience, with particular attention to their unification. The strategy is to invite people to relate actively two strongly contrasting experiences (meaning units) and to combine these into a third unit. Three idiographic studies are reported showing that the third meaning unit, created by the subjects, shifts towards another pair of polar opposites. This phenomenon, …
The Limitations of Logic in Defining the Self
Three aspects of Fisher's (1995) logical analysis are criticized: (a) his tendency to separate and polarize points of view in such a way that he provides a misconstrued picture of social constructionism, (b) his adherence to a Cartesian view, with the implication that unity and multiplicity, like continuity and discontinuity, are treated as mutually exclusive rather than as coexistent features of the self, and (c) his conception that narrative ha…
Body, Mind and Culture: The Dialogical Nature of Mediated Action
Elaborating on Wertsch's central argument, our thesis is two-fold: (a) mediated action is dialogical; (b) dialogue as a basic feature of the human condition far exceeds the boundaries of verbal conversation. In discussing the difference between logical and dialogical relationships, Bakhtin's 'ventriloquation' is defined as a collective voice. Emphasis is given to the role of the body in pseudo-and pre-hnguistic dialogues. Finally, the central arg…
Value Crisis: Affective Organization of Personal Meanings
Voicing the self: From information processing to dialogical interchange
Dialogue implies an interchange between mutually influencing voices. Two metaphors playing a major role in contemporary research are analyzed from such a perspective: the computer metaphor, in which the self is studied as an information-processing device, and the narrative metaphor, in which, story and storytelling are guiding principles for the self. It is argued that, on the metaphorical level, the computer and the narrative analogy allow voice…
Dialogue Shakes Narrative: From Temporal Storyline to Spatial Juxtaposition
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Dialogue Shakes Narrative: From Temporal Storyline to Spatial Juxtaposition
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Science between Cooperation and Competition: Commentaryon Hurme
According to Hurme's (1997) production metaphor, competition among researchers plays a central role in scientific enterprise. I argue that competition cannot be excluded from scientific practice and should actually be considered as a significant motivational force. My main thesis, however, is that the production metaphor is blind to the scientific process as a cooperative enterprise guided by a specific set of values. Even in an era in which scie…
Commonalities in Boesch and Murray: Bridging between a European and an American Thinker
Six commonalities in the work of Ernst Boesch and Henry Murray are outlined: a holistic approach to the study of personality; a systematic elaboration of the person-situation interaction; an incorporation of psychoanalytic elements into their theoretical thinking; an emphasis on the cultural foundations of personality; and an intense affinity with novelistic literature. The main part of this article is devoted to the sixth commonality: Boesch's a…
Moving cultures: The perilous problems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing society
Categorical thinking is the target
Categorical thinking is the target
Midlife Crisis in Men: Affective Organization of Personal Meanings
The purpose of this article is to explore the specific affective organization of personal meanings in midlife crisis in men. Midlife crisis is described as a process of intensive transition of the self including the reinterpretation of time perspective, reevaluation of life values and goals, confrontation with death as a personal event in the future, and planning of the second half of life. Personal meanings referring to past, present, and future…
The Innovative Potentials of Agreement and Disagreement in Dialogical History: Comment on Lyra
Dialogical Thinking and Self-Innovation
In the tradition of American pragmatism, theorists like James, Mead and Allport have emphasized the self's capacity for change and innovation. In the tradition of the Russian dialogical school, Bakhtin and his co-workers have dealt with the relationship between dialogue and innovation. These two traditions are brought together in the concept of the 'dialogical self', which is taken as the starting point for an empirical investigation. 103 partici…
Valuation, Innovation and Critical Personalism
Some of the central parts of Stem's philosophy of values are discussed: (a) the transcendence of Cartesian dualism between self and other by his conception of I-world relationship; (b) the reconciliation of absolutism and relativism by the introduction of his concept of self-value (Selbstwert); and (c) the impact of social interaction on value formation by his distinction between centered values (of a particular person) and excentered values (of …
Psychology (40 works) · Social Psychology (32 works) · Epistemology (31 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Social Representations and Identity (29 works) · Philosophy (27 works) · Dialogical self (21 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Self (13 works)