"Lévy-Bruhl and others say that any counsious that differs from men who are part of a so called 'civilized societie' is primitive. This creates a wrong functional opposition between two kinds of psychsism: 'inferior' and 'superior'. That opposition is used as a base to many series of reactionary and colonialist 'doctrines' of what is so called people's psychical insuficence." (Leont'ev, 1978, p. 100)
"The 'bantos' [african peopleo] consider all the sterlized wifes as a tragedy. Levy-Bruhl tells us that this phenomenon shows that their thinking is that women's sterlizing is something so terrible as a bad harvest. Make bilt a theory from this point, according to which, in low levels of its development, people does ignore the natural facts of fertilization (and with no consideration of cows' rearing!). We shall, by the way, reject the preconcepted idea of that counscious be determinated by knowledge, by thinking. So, behind that 'representation participation' or that 'non-knowledge' arises something very different: an original counsious expression of social identity (meaning) of those phenomena. (...)" (Leont'ev, 1978, p. 112)
Leont'ev, A. Development of Psychsism. Lisbon, Portugal: Horizonte Universtário Publishers, 1978.
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