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Title: The Host and the Guest: Navigating Liminal Spaces and Internal Cultural Conflict Through the Lens of Dialogical Self Dynamics.
Authors: Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado (AUTHOR)
Source: Journal of Constructivist Psychology. Jan-Mar2026, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p16-47. 32p.
Subjects: Culture conflict, Sociocultural factors, Identity (Psychology), Self-realization, Normativity (Ethics), Dissenters
Geographic Terms: Georgia
Abstract: This study of "Host and the Guest" employed an innovative research strategy. It treated a fictional text, a poem considered iconic in Georgia, as both a sociocultural artifact and a transcript of a dialogical conversation. This approach enabled the examination of indigenous cultural value dynamics and revealed subtleties in the dynamics of the dialogical self's higher mental functions. This paper presents a semiotic and dialogical analysis of I-positioning within a liminal sociocultural context where clashes between different dominant values and roles create highly ambiguous situations. It demonstrates that dialogical societal dynamics involve (inter)individual resistance to existing cultural norms, often leading to occasional tensions within the heterogeneous cultural system and creating conditions for personal and sociocultural innovation. The conditionality and fluidity of sociocultural roles are revealed in the example of the drama unfolding in mountainous Georgia. Here, an enemy becomes an untouchable upon assuming the role of guest while crossing the sacred, symbolic border of the host's home. This manuscript vividly illustrates fundamental higher mental regularities such as normativity, resistance, and liminality, which contribute to interindividual and intergroup variability through irreversible human and societal development. It opens avenues for a better understanding of self-development and sociocultural innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: This study of "Host and the Guest" employed an innovative research strategy. It treated a fictional text, a poem considered iconic in Georgia, as both a sociocultural artifact and a transcript of a dialogical conversation. This approach enabled the examination of indigenous cultural value dynamics and revealed subtleties in the dynamics of the dialogical self's higher mental functions. This paper presents a semiotic and dialogical analysis of I-positioning within a liminal sociocultural context where clashes between different dominant values and roles create highly ambiguous situations. It demonstrates that dialogical societal dynamics involve (inter)individual resistance to existing cultural norms, often leading to occasional tensions within the heterogeneous cultural system and creating conditions for personal and sociocultural innovation. The conditionality and fluidity of sociocultural roles are revealed in the example of the drama unfolding in mountainous Georgia. Here, an enemy becomes an untouchable upon assuming the role of guest while crossing the sacred, symbolic border of the host's home. This manuscript vividly illustrates fundamental higher mental regularities such as normativity, resistance, and liminality, which contribute to interindividual and intergroup variability through irreversible human and societal development. It opens avenues for a better understanding of self-development and sociocultural innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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