Re: Leontiev

From: Charles Nelson (c.nelson@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 13:55:45 PDT


Carl wrote:

> In a recent article w. Vasconcellas,
>Valsiner writes: "The child...utilizes the collective culturally meaningful
>surroundings to build his or her personal understanding of the world. The
>ways in which the latter is constructed are the child's own - each child
>creates a unique personal world."
> Clearly, Valsiner rejects the notion of socialization and the cultural
>organization of mind/psychology. He replaces a social conception of psych.
>and personality w. a highly personal conception that individuals insulate
>themselves from culture and construct unique personal worlds. Let's not
>confuse individualism w. cultural psych., and certainly not w. marxism.
> This is tangential to the issue of Leontiev's thinking, but it's relevant
>to the issue of marxism, culture, and psych. If marxism and culture are to
>be relevant to psych., we must focus on the essential features of these
>concepts and distinguish them from individualistic notions.

After distinguishing them, how do we tie them together?

Charles Nelson



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