Guest Lecture: Dialogic Multiplication in Historical-Philosophical Research in Psychology

  • Prof. Danilo Silva Guimarães, University of São Paulo
  • July 6, 2026, from 1 p.m.
  • SFU Berlin, Campus Tempelhof, Columbiadamm 10, Turm 9, 12101 Berlin

Abstract 
Dialogical Multiplication brings together emerging principles from the fields of Indigenous psychology. It articulates metatheoretical propositions of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology (Simão, 2023) and theories of Amerindian multinaturalism (cf. Viveiros de Castro, 2015; Graeber, 2015). The framework has evolved through the incorporation of sociocultural experiences and reflections from various cultural contexts (see Jensen & Silva Guimarães, 2018; Valsiner, 2019; and Groot et al., 2020). Dialogical Multiplication assumes that each social community establishes a place to see, feel, and live based on their „process of territorialization of space/time in which they finally establish themselves as a culture“ (Quintero Weir, 2021). This place creates a horizon that allows for a perspective in which the self is positioned within a world built with others.

Dialogical Multiplication addresses the challenges of communicating across multiple sociocultural realities, detailing the aspects involved in building respect for differences among beings, peoples, and communities and appreciating social and environmental diversity as a great wealth for humanity. In the context of historical and philosophical research in psychology, it considers how the various worlds of living beings, including Indigenous traditions and communities, influence one another, creating different environmental realities for each life. It proposes that science’s task is to contribute to constructing a world in which the participation of ‚all of us‘ (Quintero Weir, 2021) is possible, adopting an ethical stance as the primary and ultimate consideration of all scientific and professional projects. The term ‚ethics‘ does not refer to any moral statement or static protocol; rather, it addresses the openings and restrictions of scientific theoretical, methodological and practical proposals for constructing knowledge that fulfils concrete life needs and cares for planetary socio-biodiversity. This includes the infinite, though not arbitrary, ways of being and knowing in the singular and collective trajectories of life.

 

Department Psychology
Sigmund Freud Private University Berlin
Campus Tempelhof
Columbiadamm 10, Tower 9
12101 Berlin – Tempelhof

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