The human psyche is relational, transient, and tensional. It instantiates itself by an ongoing constructive process of sensemaking in terms of dynamic configurations of person/world/others systems. Semiotic mediation (namely the sign interface in the course of the experience and the development) offers the conditions for the possibility of thinking, feeling, acting, and constructing systems of relationships. Valsiner elaborates three universal tenets of the human psyche: normativity, liminality, and resistance. In my opinion, they address three major concerns: (a) tension between "stability" and "change," (b) relation between "immediacy" vs "mediateness of the experience," (c) ambivalence between "substance" and "relationality." Following I consider the notion of "modal articulation" as my contribution to develop in semiotic terms the dynamic core of human psyche. Modal articulation refers to processes of sensemaking of one's experience mediated by the modal categories of necessity, possibility, will, and knowledge. The modal articulation allows a dynamic focus on sensemaking processes in terms of affective, identity, relational and agentive construction. Modal articulation works alongside the three main functions of connection (between affects and meaning), mediation (in terms of identity-intersubjectivity bonds), and vectorization (by directing the agentive trajectory).
