>I would be most interested to hear from one of the Russian scholars out
>there whether the original text also supported this view. ---Tim
Hi Tim,
I am not a Russian scholar, but translated long ago this text into Finnish
and have the Russian original. It says:
"Tak, v hode dostizeniya vydelyavshseisya obshei tseli mozet
proishodit=B4 vydelenie promezutocnyh tselei, v rezultate cego
tselostnoe deistvie drobitsya na ryad otdelnyh posledovatelnyh
deistvii; eto osobenno harakterno dlya slucayev, kogda deistvie
protekaet v usloviyah, zatrudnyayushih ego vypolnenie s pomoshs=B4yu
uze sformirovavshsihsya operatsii."
If I understand the context correctly I would not draw the same
conclusions as Tim. I read the original in technical terms: how an activity
is carried out in actions and how these action units are divided into
a chain of smaller actions or bigger molar units. This fluctuation
of the unit size happens according to Leont=E9v on the level of
psychic representations or schemes, too. I think it is not possible to
read in this part of the text on reflection. Leont=B4ev talks about
difficulties in carrying out actions by using the developed operations.
I think it would be necessary to consider the relevance of motive/goal
discrepancy as a source reflective practice. Leont=B4ev deals with this
problem a lot.
Pentti
Pentti Hakkarainen
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