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Best,
Huw
On 15 July 2013 10:37, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
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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