[xmca] Rey's call for a generative overflowing overlapping intertwining of the notion of "sense"

[Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>]

I am not sure how other's will reflect on Rey's article but I certainly felt
at home while reading his expansion of Vygotsky's forgotten legacy. The
entire article I read as an example of chiasm or ECART
[separation-differentiation which is NOT opposition] Also the historical
movement [motivation] BETWEEN the subjective and objective moments,
reflective and generative moments, of his creativity/reflections is an
EXAMPLE of chiasm.  The reversibility of these different [but intertwining]
moments in Vygotsky's project that Rey so clearly articulates points to a
much vaster and overflowing perspective on "psyche" as both subjective and
objective.  Rey suggests Vygotsky's second moment, has become a reductive
reification of his much larger project of locating the psyche and world in
the realm of "sense"

This larger more inclusive [and overflowing EXCESS] of "sense" as a radical
re-visioning of psychology [and all the human sciences] seems, from my
perspective, to share the same impulse of searching for a way to be at home
in the world that Merleau-Ponty was articulating.  Over this last couple of
years I have been trying to approach a "fusion of horizons" between
continental philosophy and cultural-historical theory [both traditions of
which I had a superficial background and still  I'm learning more]  Rey
mentions Leontiev and Zinchenko as authors who were trying to situate
Vygotsky's second moment in a larger con-figuration [context figuration] of
sense as interwining process and configuration as reversible chiasm. I would
add Anna Stetsenko to that list.

I want to end with an example from M-P. He compared two marksmen with
rifles. The first is aiming at a static target and the goal [intention] is
to hit the static bullseye. The second marsman is "learning" how to hit a
bird in flight and his "knowledge" is an embodied knowledge which needs to
correct the aim "automatically" [in the same way as we automatically adjust
to a particular handshake] and the mind/body is intimately involved in
ORIENTING or COORDINATING this movement [motivation]  This for M-P was the
difference between "empirical explanations" [sedimented] and being/becoming
alive to moving birds in flight.  The patterns that connect for M-P are like
musical patterns and therefore his notion of "singing the world" rather than
"acting the world" or "discussing the world".   This WAY of seeing
[perspective] is pointing to "sense" as articulated in Rey's article.

Not sure if this line [thread] of reflection is interweaving a fused
"fabric" or if I'm weaving my own subjective "fabric" but I personally am
excited about the direction of Rey's orienting or "witnessing" and his way
of honouring Vygotsky's legacy of cultural-historical theory. I want to
highlight once again M-P's turn away from the search for THE primary basic
[reductive] element or function and his coming to embrace empiricism and
phenomenology as intertwining modes of "expression"  I would like to suggest
that Vygotsky's notion of "sense" and M-P's notion of "expression are both
trying to articulate a radically new direction for psychology intertwining
the "visible and invisible" as ECART [separation-differentiation that is NOT
opposition]

Larry
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