Re: Psychology and Marxism Updates

From: Andy Blunden (ablunden@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 16:11:46 PDT


>--
>There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms
>of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the
>phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the
>naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go
>outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the
>mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek
>the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social history of
>humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it.
>LS Vygotsky

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and also likewise often of the sources of psychosis. Is anyone aware of
work in relation to the concept of "alienation" as developed by Marx in
relation to commodity production, as a foundation for psychosis?

Andy



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