[xmca] Luria on emotions

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

With the upcoming xmca discussion of Part 2 of the Special Issue on the 
emotions, people might like to look at Luria's book on his approach to 
the investigation of affect.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1932/nature-conflicts/luria-conflicts.pdf

We just have the Preface and Introduction at the moment, but the 
methodological discussion here is intriguing, especially his insistence 
that it is only *psychological* investigation, based on detailed 
observation of voluntary actions and consideration of the entire system 
of the psychological and motor functions, and not *physiological* 
investigation (as in modern "neuroscience:) which can shed any light on 
problems of how human actvity can be "disorganised" - and in 1932, this 
from the guy who is virtually the founder of modern neuroscience.

Andy
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