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Human beings create signs in order to make it possible for themselves to make sense of the uncertainty of facing the future within irreversible time. The latter guarantees open-endedness of the human psyche through the unity of pre-constructive imagination and reconstructive memory processes. This unity of the past (memory) and future (imagination) is the universal basic process for all human beings. Culture is a meta-concept in universal human science providing room for various theoretical perspectives that are at the level of abstraction of other basic sciences.
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What is usually called “reconstructive memory” in the Bartlett-Wagoner perspective is actually pre-constructive within the CPSD framework. In classical psychology it is parallel to the act of apperception .
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Valsiner, J. (2018). Constructive Semiosis Is the Core of the Human Psyche . In: Lyra, M., Pinheiro, M. (eds) Cultural Psychology as Basic Science. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01467-4_2
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