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Dear Paula,
That would be great. Is Anton on this list? Can you give us the source of
this citation?
Martin
On 10/27/08 4:26 AM, "Paula Towsey" <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:
> Dear Martin
>
> Thanks for your question. Maybe we can ask Anton Yasnitsky if he could help
> because he translates very well and pays lots of attention to detail.
>
> Paula
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Martin Packer
> Sent: 26 October 2008 07:19 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Re: the Strange Situation - process and
> the'non-staticness' of concepts
>
> Paula & David,
>
> At the risk of seeming to perseverate (which my students, young clinical
> psychologists, tell me is a clear indicator of brain damage!) can I jump in
> to your discussion here? You provide us with a very nice example of the
> translation of Vygotsky using the term "reflection" at a central point in
> the definition of a concept. In my view such a translation is highly
> misleading. It makes Vygotsky seem to say that the concept is an image, a
> copy, of the object that is being conceptualized. Yet this *cannot* be what
> he was saying, for reasons that Michael sketched out in a recent message.
> Can we work together here to find out what the Russian word was, and how we
> might better translate it?
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 10/26/08 5:20 AM, "Paula Towsey" <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Further, he writes that, at the time, psychology began to understand a
>> concept łnot as a thing, but as a process, not as an empty abstraction,
> but
>> as a thorough and penetrating reflection of an object of reality in all
> its
>> complexity and diversity, in connections and relations to all the rest of
>> reality˛ (1998, p. 55).
>
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