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Re: [xmca] Passages from Chapter 5 of LSV



Not sure that this helps much, David, but I agree with you that
Mescheryakov's figure should be seen as a reconstruction of ontogenesis, not
phylogenesis, cultural-history, or microgenesis. I find particularly helpful
the way that he distinguishes two laws, two transitions, which are somewhat
conflated in discussion of V's "general genetic law," namely
social->individual and external-> internal. (But notice that if there are
four laws, there must be five stages. Mescheryakov himself ends up with 7
stages and 6 laws.)

And Mescheryakov seems to me to be accurately describing V's account of
these transitions as sublimation (if I may use the english translation of
the term Hyppolite used for his translation of Hegel's term rather than the
more usual 'sublation'). Mescheryakov writes:

"It should be noted that this approach views each point of differentiation
as involving a process whereby the previous form does not die away
(symbolized by the arrows in Figure 6.1) and does not remain unchanged.
Instead, it is reorganized under the impact of new formations" (158-9)

For example (now quoting V), "those elementary primitive forms which a child
acquired at the age of three are reconstructed on new bases" in adolescence.

Martin



On 1/1/09 6:40 PM, "David Kellogg" <vaughndogblack@yahoo.com> wrote:

> NATURAL-->CULTURAL
>                        ^
>                   SOCIAL-->INDIVIDUAL
>                                         ^
>                                        EXTRAMENTAL-->INTRAMENTAL
>                                                                            ^
>                                                                         
> SPONTANEOUS-->SCIENTIFIC


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