What I had in mind was:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1930/child/ch12.htm
The blind or deaf-mute child would be unable to live at all unless he
somehow compensated his shortcomings. His physical defect would leave him
too unadaptable. A special and peculiar mechanism, the compensation of
defects, thus comes into play. As he gains experience, the child learns how
to offset his natural shortcomings. Against a background of deficient
natural behavior certain cultural devices and skills begin to cover, or
compensate the defect, and enable the child to handle impossible tasks in
new, different ways. Deficient behavior begins to accumulate compensatory
cultural behavior, leading to the creation of a "defect culture", whereby
the disabled child acquires certain positive characteristics, in addition
to his negative ones. It is the latter, in our opinion, that the
psychologist should study above all else.
Andy
At 08:51 PM 8/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Andy and everybody
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>Andy wrote, If human beings don't experience it, then I can only think
>that what is going on is a suppression of the reaction.
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>I have heard that Vygotsky developed some electrical device that allowed
>blind people to perceive color of objects by putting their hands over the
>objects. If it is true, I do not think that these blind people should
>assume that all other people who cant perceive color by skin, suppress
>their (our) reaction. It is quite possible that some of physiological
>reactions are culturally cultivatedinto recognizable perceptions and emotions.
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>What do you think?
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>Eugene
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>PS Thanks, Andy, for your comment about Marx biography. It is on my
>reading list now.
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>From: Andy Blunden [mailto:ablunden@mira.net]
>Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:27 PM
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: RE: the psychology of dissent
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>Intriguing. Animals experience a kind of excitement manifested in very
>specific manifestations like fur standing on end, increased heart-rate,
>etc., which are triggered when physically threatened by one of their own
>species.
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>What do you think?
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>(Normally I abhor "natural scientific" approaches to social interaction,
>but I guess I'm trying to find exactly where that connection between
>action-motivation and cognitive structures happens. Vygotsky's work seems
>to be fully inclusive of association of reactions, etc., inclusive of
>cognitive development.)
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>Andy
>At 08:08 PM 8/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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>Dear Andy and everybody
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>Although, anger seems to be an obviouslyuniversal human feeling some
>authors disagree with that. Specifically, I think about the following book
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>Briggs, J. L. (1970). Never in anger: Portrait of an Eskimo family.
>Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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>Jean Briggs is an anthropologist who studied an Intuit community. She
>argues and provides evidence that this community never experiences anger.
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>I read the book and found it is very interesting and convincing. But Im
>not an anthropologist and I do not know where the field is with regard to
>Briggsclaim. Id appreciate if some knowledgeable people educate me about that.
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>Thanks,
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>Eugene
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>From: IRAJ IMAM [mailto:iimam@cal-research.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:32 PM
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: RE: the psychology of dissent
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>Can anyone tell me what exactly are those small range of distinct
>emotional feelings?
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>Fear is obviously one; anger; I have heard that shame is in common with
>the animals; joy.
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>Can people help me with this one?
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>Andy
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>HI Andy,
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>Thomas J. Scheff of UC Santa Barbara has written books on the Sociology
>of Emotions. He and her wife see shame as a basic emotion that is the base
>for violence at interpersonal and in inter-group levels.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1977) The distancing of emotion in ritual. Current
>AnthropologyVol 18. No.3:483-504.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1979) Catharsis in Healing Ritual, and Drama. Berkely:
>Iniversity of California Press.
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>Scheff, T.J. (1990) Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social
>Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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>iraj
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