Chapter 20: The Temporality of Tradition: Some Horizons for Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology

In this chapter, I would like to propose the relevance and pertinence of invoking the notion of tradition—in the hermeneutic philosophical sense espoused by Gadamer—in the understanding of human events regarding temporality, within the theoretical and methodological and ethics perspective of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology (Simão, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2014).

This proposal is based on the fact that the hermeneutic notion of tradition touches the third among the three interrelated forms of simultaneity in human temporal experience that generate disquieting (Simão, 2007) and creative tension (Valsiner, 1998) in I-other-world relationships in accordance with the perspective of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology; namely, the simultaneity between