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mike
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> People might be interested in the attached review of a biography of Luria,
> by Anna Stetsenko. I find particular interest in the review in Anna's
> approach to the development of Luria's personality and the investigative
> work he was part of as *projects*. The review also gives helpful context to
> Luria's life-work.
>
> Andyh
>
> Haydi Zulfei wrote:
>
>> >From the book :
>>
>> [[Although many
>> authors
>> studying
>> human behaviour
>> (normal) always attempted
>> to understand its
>> general structure, they
>> failed to do this when
>> they passed
>> over
>> to the
>> investigation
>> of such
>> processes
>> as
>> affect, conflict,
>> and
>> neurosis. To
>> investigate
>> in this
>> territory
>> the
>> existing structures,
>> to find lawfulness in
>> chaos,
>> of
>> course,
>> seemed far more
>> complicated and sometimes more or less senseless
>> ;
>> and
>> confirming
>> "that
>> affectis a disease of the
>> mind,"
>> the
>> majority
>> of authors decided
>> not to examine it as a form of behaviour
>> obeying
>> its own
>> particular
>> law,
>> and were satisfied with a
>> simple description
>> of the
>> various
>> pathological
>> states.
>> When science attained the
>> possibility
>> of
>> studying objectively
>> psychological phenomena,
>> a new
>> phase
>> was
>> reached,
>> but in the
>> main there was no
>> improvement.
>> Such authors decided that to
>> speak
>> of
>> disorganisation
>> of behaviour as a
>> psychological subject
>> was
>> fairly difficult,
>> and that when the
>> person
>> "loses his
>> equilibrium" the behaviour falls under the influence of certain
>> physiological processes, losing
>> its
>> specific psychologically organised
>> character. The same
>> affect,
>> or
>> neurosis,
>> and this was still more
>> marked with
>> psychoses, began
>> to be considered as
>> physiological
>> or
>> pathological phenomena;
>> and in its
>> study they
>> considered
>> sufficient a
>> description
>> of the several
>> physiological symptoms
>> characterising
>> it. The
>> James-Lange theory
>> of emotion was the
>> theoretical
>> justification
>> of such a
>> capitulation
>> of
>> psychological
>> investigation
>> and the transfer of the whole domain of affect to
>> pure physiology.]]
>>
>> ... seems we still need Luria alive !
>>
>> {{I've said this many times on the internet. War is a product of class
>>
>> divided society, civilization.
>>
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