[Xmca-l] Re: 4 experiencing fans

[Peter Smagorinsky]

Is Christianity such a monolith that it can be viewed as a single tradition? Vygotsky positioned it as such in the 1920s, and as a devoted Communist, it may have appeared to him that way (hard to say in such provincial societies what was and wasn't available to their vision). But surely not now, given how many Christian denominations there are and how they stand in contrast to one another.

I say this as an atheist with no dog in this fight, just a resistance to overgeneralization. p

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From: xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 2:01 AM
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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: 4 experiencing fans

The material in the second, longer article, would be of very great interest for any xmca-ers who are counsellor or psychotherapists. It is, amongst other things, a pretty comprehensive manual for psychotherapy. It is also particularly interesting in its effort to place Soviet psychology in the context of the history of psychology worldwide and the various traditions current today (including the Christian tradition). And of course lots about perezhivanie, a.k.a. experiencing.
There are some efforts to systematise that I am not so sure about, in particular a complex concept of "mental image" (or representation). The systematic material is very condensed and hard to follow. But it is very challenging and stimulating.

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
On 2/11/2015 1:14 PM, Beth Ferholt wrote:
> THANKS! Beth
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> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:48 PM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> Those interested in the later work of Feodor Vasiliuk on 
>> perezhivanie/experiencing, here is new material free.
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>> http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Vasilyuk%2C+F
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>> mike
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>> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an 
>> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch
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