I read your comments over Mikhael Yaroshevsky's study.
Is that book translated to english or spanish?
It was not clear to me if the book published by Progress was in english
or russian.
I think one of the most interesting issue pointed by Vygotsky in
Psychology of Art (arts)is... when he said that when someone can
understand art criation as something intentional, aware, the artistic
knowlege becomes so important as the cientific one. The
artistic creation understood as somethig made by artist in order to come
out a specific reaction (reflexe) in the public (the aesthetic reaction=
his concept of catarsis) is like the experiment conceived by the
psychologist interested in watching human reactions (reflexes).
Also when he talks about the relation between fantasy and emotion and
states his Sentimental Reality Law ( someone in a dark room having the
ilusion that an overcoat is a man. The reality of fear althoug that fear
was a product of his imagination, his fantasy ),
Is the book of Mikhael yaroshevsky avaiable in english? If so, would you
please tell me the publishers, year of publication etc.
An other question: Do you know if is there any translation from
russian of Vygotsky's Psychology of actor?
iPeter Smagorinsky wrote:
>
> With apologies for basing these statements on secondary sources...
>
> Vygotsky explores the cognition/emotion relationship in The Psychology of
> Art and his consideration of Hamlet. Mikhael Yaroshevsky covers this
> aspect of Vygotsky's work in Lev Vygotsky (Moscow: Progress Publishers,
> 1989) in several chapters, principally:
> University Years: The Riddle of Hamlet
> Art: a Social Technique for the Emotions
> Psychology in Terms of Drama
>
> Vygotsky challenged the idea that art is ornamental, contending instead
> that "art is the highest concentration of all the biological and social
> processes in which the individual is involved in society, that it is a mode
> of finding a balance between man and the world in the most critical and
> responsible moments of life" (Yaroshevsky, p. 149; translated from V's
> Psych. of Art). Art is "a social technique of emotions" (Y, p. 157).
>
> Yaroshevsky further argues that "when Vygotsky posited personality--a
> character of the drama of life on the social stage--as the highest unit of
> psychological analysis, the picture of the transformation of the story line
> of that drama, of external objective relations between men, into the
> invisible psychical world, assumed a different coloring" (p. 219).
> Yaroshevsky claims that V's view of the motive for the drama of human life
> served as the basis for his development of his theory of the development of
> higher mental functions.
>
> Yaroshevsky also reviews V's work on defectology in the chapter "The
> Abnormal Child in the World of Culture."
>
> At 12:19 PM 2/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Thanks, Roberto, for the note on emotional attachments and learning.
> >I know some of the sources you cite, like Friere, but had not thought
> >of him in htis context. I was actually puzzling on the way to work
> >about how this query seemed not to connect on xmca. I believe it
> >(the question) is a reflection of the consequences of the habitual
> >dualism between cognition and emotion. I noted the other day that the
> >journal "Cognition" is now called "Cognition and Emotion." Sort of
> >progress?
> >mike
> >