The question of how individual human beings achieve stable and collaborative social relations, given that they also have diverging desires and interests, remains important for any psychology or psychological metatheory concerned with the study of individuals in social life. Yet, many influential sociocultural psychologies have, in effect, denied that question’s validity. Discursive, hermeneutic, relational, and some critical psychologies overemphasize the constitutive force of social interactivity and cultural meanings for individual subjectivity, emotion, and other putative psychological phenomena. Using the case of positioning theory, I argue that sociocultural approaches, while of great value, take those “oversocialized” assumptions too far and do not adequately account for the moral complexities and tragic existential realities of human individual and social life. Those dimensions can be more fully theorized and studied using a cultural psychology that retains cultural–phenomenological and symbolic interactionist elements but also includes a set of broadly psychodynamic assumptions and methods.

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超越心理学主题的过度社会化概念：欲望、冲突和社会秩序问题

鉴于人类也有不同的愿望和兴趣，个体如何实现稳定和协作的社会关系的问题对于任何涉及社会生活中个体研究的心理学或心理元理论仍然很重要。然而，许多有影响力的社会文化心理学实际上否认了这个问题的有效性。散漫的、诠释的、关系的和一些批判的心理学过分强调社会互动的构成力量和个人主观性、情感和其他假定的心理现象的文化意义。使用定位理论的案例，我认为社会文化方法虽然很有价值，将那些“过度社会化”的假设走得太远，并没有充分考虑人类个体和社会生活的道德复杂性和悲惨的存在现实。可以使用保留文化现象学和符号互动主义元素但也包括一组广泛的心理动力学假设和方法的文化心理学对这些维度进行更充分的理论化和研究。