Funds of identity and subjectivity: finding new paths and alternatives for a productive dialogue (Fondos de identidad y subjetividad: búsqueda de nuevas vías y alternativas para un diálogo productivo)

Abstract

This article represents an attempt to advance theoretically in the dialogue between two themes that have become increasingly popular in the fields of psychology and education within historical-cultural psychology: funds of identity and subjectivity. Although these relatively new lines of research can advance within a framework of symbolic-affective processes of the human phenomenon, sharing the focus of development as one of their convergent characteristics, there are also notable divergences between both approaches. To resolve these tensions, we put forward the theoretical approach called Funds of Identity within a subjective ontology, which proposes transcending the division between negative or positive emotions, and the idea of the accumulation of life experiences, towards positions of greater complexity, where life experiences are understood to be a stream of senses and subjective configurations.