[Xmca-l] Re: useful psychology?

[Andy Blunden]

Yes. I'll do a search for psychotechnics on the internet 
archive and see if something comes up.

andy

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*Andy Blunden*
Hegel for Social Movements <https://brill.com/view/title/54574>
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On 15/01/2020 2:59 pm, mike cole wrote:
> Might you be looking for “psychotechnics” Andy?
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 7:35 PM David Kellogg 
> <dkellogg60@gmail.com <mailto:dkellogg60@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Andy--
>
>     That really doesn't sound like Vygotsky to me.
>
>     Yes, he refers to art as the "social technique of
>     emotion" (Psychology of Art). Yes, he did experiments
>     on reading "Gentle Breath" to see if Bunin's short
>     story had any affect on breathing rates. But as far as
>     I know he had nothing to do with Luria's work on lie
>     detectors (in The Nature of Human Conflict), and he
>     was even rather skeptical of Luria's work on optical
>     illusions in "uneducated" peoples
>
>     . Remember, this is the guy who denied that a general
>     psychology could ever cut itself off from practice and
>     vice versa (History of the Crisis in Psychology), who
>     rejected the idea that thinking is speech with the
>     sound turned off (Thinking and Speech). Besides, who
>     ever heard of a technology opposed to an epistemology?
>     What would that mean? A hand without a brain?
>
>     Vygotsky sounds more like this: "Neither the hand nor
>     the brain left to itself can do much."  Francis Bacon,
>     /Novum Organum/ (1620), Book 1, Aphorism 2.
>
>     David Kellogg
>     Sangmyung University
>
>     New Article: 'Commentary: On the originality of
>     Vygotsky's "Thought and Word" i
>     in /Mind Culture and Activity/
>     /https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749039.2020.1711775
>     /
>     Some free e-prints available at:
>     https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SK2DR3TYBMJ42MFPYRFY/full?target=10.1080/10749039.2020.1711775
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:49 AM Andy Blunden
>     <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
>
>         There's somewhere where Vygotsky talks about
>         psychology as a technology as opposed to (for
>         example) an epistemology. Can anyone point me to
>         where this observation is to be found. I can find
>         it with my search engines. I think Vygotsky and
>         Luria's invention of the lie-detector has been
>         mentioned in this connection.
>
>         Andy
>
>
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> “as if”, therein lies its true   function and its 
> potential for effecting change- R. Ellison
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