PSY Guest Lecture | Dialogic Multiplication in Historical-Philosophical Research in Psychology

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

• Prof. Danilo Silva Guimarães, University of São Paulo
• 6 July 2026, from 1 p.m.
• SFU Berlin, Tempelhof Campus, Columbiadamm 10, Tower 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 territorialisation of space/time in which they ultimately establish themselves as a culture” (Quintero Weir, 2021). This place creates a horizon that allows for a perspective in which the self is situated within a world built together with others.

Dialogical Multiplication addresses the challenges of communicating across multiple sociocultural realities, detailing the aspects involved in fostering respect for differences amongst beings, peoples and communities, and recognising social and environmental diversity as a great asset to humanity. Within the context of historical and philosophical research in psychology, it examines 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 the task of science is to contribute to building 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 in all scientific and professional projects. The term ‘ethics’ does not refer to any moral statement or static protocol; rather, it addresses the possibilities and limitations of scientific theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to constructing knowledge that meets concrete life needs and safeguards planetary socio-biodiversity. This encompasses the infinite, though not arbitrary, ways of being and knowing within the individual and collective trajectories of life.

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

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