I went on Google Scholar and typed in "Vladislav Lektorsky" The book "Learning and Expanding with Activity" came up free to download. I'm sending an attachment if others are interested. Chapter 5 "Mediation as a Means of Collective Activity" by V. Lektorsky is on pages 75 to 87. Page 80 explores Lektorsky's perspective of the notion of the subject. I'll quote what he says. "The idea of the "inner world" is very important in cultural and social contexts. The subject as the unity of consciousness, the unity of an individual biography, and the center of making decisions can exist only as the center of "the inner world". But the appearance of the "inner world" is possible only when the IDEA of "the inner" arises in culture, in other words, when it is realized in forms of collective activity. This means that there may exist cultures and forms of activity including forms of communication where the subjects have no feelings of the ego and "the inner world". The ego of an individual subject may be UNDERSTOOD to be a complicated, changing, and somewhat problematic formation. It has different layers, which sometimes are INTERPRETED as different egos, engaged in communication WITH EACH OTHER and formed in different kinds of activity and n different relations with other people. Ego identity can be confused and fragmented. Thus, an individual subject can be UNDERSTOOD to be a collective subject. A specific feature of such a collective subject is that it is embodied in a single physical body and has a unity of consciousness and a central ego, REGULATING activities of different subegos. In cases of multiple personalities a central ego is absent so several egos coexist in the same body." I am not endorsing this particular perspective, but offer Lektorsky's version of the "self" formed within activity theory as an example that "self" "agency" "subjectivity" "individuality" "ego" "person" "agent" "agency" "free will" "self-determination" "self-regulation" "personality" "personhood" and the RELATION between these various terms are being fully explored and expressed within activity theory as ARISING phenomena. I would like to propose that dialogical hermeneutical notions of "situated agency" have a place/space within this constellation of terms. Larry
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