This is from Leont'ev (1978) Activity, Consciousness, and Activity.
PP 92-93
Meaning
"Actually, as you know, in their objectivity, that is, as phenomena of
social consciousness, meanings for the individual interpret objects
independently of their relations to his life, to his needs and motives.
Even for the consciousness of a drowning man, the straw he grasps still
preserves the meaning of straw. It would be another matter if that straw -
if only an illusion would turn at that moment into a life saver."
Sense
"As distinct from meaning, personal sense, like the sensory fabric of
consciousness, does not have its own "supraindividual", "nonpsychological"
existence. If in the consciousness of the subject external sensitivity
connects meaning with the reality of the objective world, then the personal
sense connects then with the reality of his own life in this world, with its
motives. Personal sense also creates the partiality of human consciousness."
Nate Schmolze
http://www.geocities.com/nate_schmolze/
schmolze@students.wisc.edu
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"Overcoming the naturalistic concept of mental development calls for a
radically new approach
to the interrelation between child and society. We have been led to this
conclusion by a
special investigation of the historical emergence of role-playing. In
contrast to the view
that role playing is an eternal extra-historical phenomenon, we hypothesized
that role playing emerged at a specific stage of social development, as the
child's position in society changed
in the course of history. role-playing is an activity that is social in
origin and,
consequently, social in content."
D. B. El'konin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ballantyne [mailto:pballan@yorku.ca]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 5:04 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: sense/meaning
See A.N. Leontiev, (Leontyev) (1981). Problems of Development of the Mind.
Cheers,
Paul F. Ballantyne.
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