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Book SynopsisFrom Fantasms to Action: The Collective Action Potential (Editor's Preface).- . E.E. Boesch’s Cultural Psychology: A Framework for Theory and Practice (Author’s Preface).- 1. From What-Is to What-Should-Be: A Systematic Approach to Understanding Action in Cultural Psychology.- 2. The Action Phase Model in Irreversible Time.- 3. The Action Potential Concept and its Underlying Mechanisms.- 4. The Interplay of Stress, Action Potential and Cultural Pre-Conditioning: Beyond Symbolic Action Theory.- 5. The Dynamics of Affect: Symbol Action Theory and Affect-Theory Re-Loaded.- 6. Collective Action Potential and I/World Balance: The role of gatekeepers and dialogical isles of mediation.- 7. Dialogues with the Amorphous Inner: An Action-Theoretical Approach to Psychoanalysis.- 8. The Quest for Meaning: Exploring Action-Theoretical Life Philosophy.- 9. The Power of Symbols: Navigating Existential Themes Through Poetic Dialogue.- 10. Ongoing Narration in the Works of Hermann Hesse: The Trace of the Nature, You, and Departure Fantasm.- . Dialogues in Cultural Psychology: Between Boesch, Bruner, and Valsiner (Postface).- . Appendix A: English Translation of Welcome and Farewell by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1874).- . Appendix B: STEPS by Hermann Hesse and translated by Gonzalez-Trejos).- . Appendix C: Sterben und Auferstehn (Matthias Claudius).
