My reading is very similar to yours, Martin. I wonder though, in both your
quotation from Manfred and elsewhere in the article about how consistently
the word, activity, is used. In your quoted example, is activity the word
of choice, or action? This question relates to Andy's earlier invocation of
operation/action/ activity.
Mike
On Sunday, March 17, 2013, Martin Packer wrote:
Perhaps it's helpful to add that emotions are classic System X processes,
especially at the start of ontogenesis. As Holodynski says, "emotions have
an activity regulating function." What he then offers, on my reading, is a
detailed account of how over the course of ontogenesis System C comes to
play a role in emotionality. Key to this at the start of ontogenesis is
that the dependence of an infant on adult caregivers means that the link
between need and satisfaction must pass through the adult. The adults'
interpretations of the infant's emotion signals thus mediate the outcome.
This provides the (social) condition for (individual) development.
At the other end of the ontogenetic trajectory - well, we had a discussion
recently about LSV's analysis of the way a cultural artifact -- a play. for
example - can educate the emotions.
Martin
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