RE: [xmca] Re: the Strange Situation - process and the'non-staticness' of concepts

Dear Martin

Thanks for your question. Maybe we can ask Anton Yasnitsky if he could help
because he translates very well and pays lots of attention to detail.

Paula

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: 26 October 2008 07:19 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Re: the Strange Situation - process and
the'non-staticness' of concepts

Paula & David,

At the risk of seeming to perseverate (which my students, young clinical
psychologists, tell me is a clear indicator of brain damage!) can I jump in
to your discussion here? You provide us with a very nice example of the
translation of Vygotsky using the term "reflection" at a central point in
the definition of a concept. In my view such a translation is highly
misleading. It makes Vygotsky seem to say that the concept is an image, a
copy, of the object that is being conceptualized. Yet this *cannot* be what
he was saying, for reasons that Michael sketched out in a recent message.
Can we work together here to find out what the Russian word was, and how we
might better translate it?

Martin

On 10/26/08 5:20 AM, "Paula Towsey" <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:

> Further, he writes that, at the time, psychology began to understand a
> concept ³not as a thing, but as a process, not as an empty abstraction,
but
> as a thorough and penetrating reflection of an object of reality in all
its
> complexity and diversity, in connections and relations to all the rest of
> reality² (1998, p. 55).

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