The Inter-modal Pre-Construction Method (IMPreC): Exploring Hyper-Generalization

Abstract

In this article, we present the blueprint for a new class of methods-inter-modal preconstructive methods-uniting the value of moving across modalities of understanding (poetry, drawing, music, etc.) in a scheme of microgenetic construction of affective fields. For this purpose, the historical roots of this class of methods were reviewed, and two empirical demonstrations are provided. In the demonstration, the possibility of exploring hypergeneralized feelings was opened up by repeatedly producing the feelings while transforming the modality step by step. In addition, it was suggested that the modality of music could be used as the next possibility. The inter-modal pre-constructive methods are ways of triggering and increasing the difficulty of expression of the original feelings. The difficulty of switching the modality is a new synthesis while keeping attention to the feeling once felt. Alternatively, we felt the feeling of "understanding" about others' poetry. This implied that poetry, like painting, allowed for a new synthesis of the reader's experiences. The multiplicity of the synthesis through a particular medium can be called "pluri-synthesis." While such syntheses are unique to each person, we found that this diversity of meaning-making can be a catalyst for pleromatization through the communication of others' feelings.

Cultivation of Humanity: How we can stagnate within the eternal flow

“…The inner meaning processes are transmitting fragments of information to a nexus point that activates the interpretation generation—individualization—of concepts as natural or normality (Bisgaard et al in press; Valsiner, 2009; Campill & Valsiner 2021). This nexus of meaning streams is in other words initiating a hyper-complex meaning construct, that is, overwhelming the classical empirical knowledge generation tools 2 by fusing the five layers (Figure 2) of meaning storage and evaluation (Valsiner et al, 2021) into a single omnipresent reality construct —as a physical law, but in an individual context. This concept in its short form can be defined as essence of our naturalization labeling.…”

“…This concept in its short form can be defined as essence of our naturalization labeling. In conclusion, the “ as natural perceived ” can be described as a junction field in which passed , current , and potential following experiences are used to construct individually the so-called natural essence and conditions of reality .

Figure 2.The sign’s hierarchy (Valsiner et al, 2021).

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“…A process that clearly contaminates the Gestalt of the memory—experienced and memorized information—and leads to inner dialogue between memorized knowledge and in the now analyzed material (Valsiner, 2005; Diriwächter & Valsiner, 2005). In an exaggerated example, this could be visualized by an individual trying to write a new adaptation of a Jane Austen book based on the stylistic concepts of Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll), or vice versa, leading to an in meaning identical book, whereby the outcome is certainly not possible to be defined as identical product Figure 4.

Figure 4.Extension of Valsiner et al (2021) the sign’s hierarchy.

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Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move

“…A clarification of the situation and of the current reality, is needed. In the shift of pleromatic signs (Valsiner et al, 2021) the soldiers find the desire to fight for the country, for the family and for each other. Whereby in the end, the key role has to be played by the individual her/himself-the self as catalyst-allowing to first of all perceive the Gestalts-explosion as such and to build based on the elaboration in irreversible time an approach helping to move towards new meaning.…”

The drama of development in intervention: An investigation from the perspective of cultural psychology of semiotic mediation

“…Responding to the difficult task of investigating hyper-generalized affective fields, Valsiner, et al (2021) proposed the "inter-modal preconstructive methods" (p.1) by repeatedly expressing and producing feelings in different modalities (e.g. poetry, drawing, dance, music, etc.).…”