Re: Fw: [xmca] Luria on emotions

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

OOOPS!This was supposed to be a note to Bruce to put the review on the
Luria page at lchc.
'pologize
mike

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:16 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> This time the attachment is there. Gotta remember to select original
> attachments.
> This goes in articles about Luria.
> 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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