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Seems like a copy in English would be nice. Perhaps for the new year. mike On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:31 AM, christine schweighart < schweighartgate@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > p.s I found this link via googling lchc > http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2007_11.dir/0417.html > > > > From: schweighartgate@hotmail.com > To: ablunden@mira.net > CC: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > Subject: Re: Re: [xmca] Interpreting Leontiev: functionalism and Anglo > Finnish Insufficiences > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:27:23 +0000 > > > > > > Andy, > On appropriating motive Perhaps bringing in Fyodor Vasilyuk's ' The > Psychology of Experiencing . An Analysis of how critical situations are > dealt with' 1984/88 would be relevant. The theme goes back to the earlier > thread of 'parallel' subjectivity of Gonzalez Rey from social relations , > Vasilyuk sees a relation between motive and 'values' : > > " In the first place, by the fact that values in themselves have no > stimulating energy and force and therefore are incapable of directly > compelling motives and behaviour to obey them. > A value does, on the other hand, have the power to produce emotions, for > instance if a choice already made is clearly in conflict with it. This > means that the value must be taken ( in the terms of the psychological > theory of activity) to be in the same category as motive, for emotions > relate to separate activities, reflecting the course of their realisation > of various motives..(.ref.) > ..... > It is possible to suppose that in the course of individual development > values undergo a definite evolution, changing not only in content but in > motivational status as well, in the place they occupy and the role they > play in the structure of life activity' p139 > > Vasilyuk's interest in a critical-situation threshold and dealing with > them is to be seen as an 'individual's investigation of the situation > (which is ) not cognitive in intent, nor is it intellectual in method, it > is trying to find answers not to universal questions but to questions of > vital interest to the individual. It is not rational cognition, but probing > of the internal and external bounds of possibility, a testing out of the > world and of the self.' He refers to a coming up against a reality 'such as > never was' always at a border line , which require creativity and can > become growing points. > In the book Vasilyuk explores 'frustration' suggests a 'typology of > frustration behaviours'. then explores Conflict and Crisis, defence > mechanisms. Related to ‘experiencing ‘ hedonist’ ‘realistic’ ‘value’ and > ‘creative’ l experiencing. I was interested that he also tried to situate > 'energy' into his schema. > > In Chapter 3 he considers these dynamics in ‘cultural-historical > determination of experiencing – he goes on to explore archetypes and > schemas or collective concepts for ‘depth of perspective of meaning’ – > These 'schematisms of consciousness' / archetypes and he mentions a few > examples of this kind - 'are able to serve as a form through which an > individual makes sense of, or re-interprets, the events and circumstances > of life, and are thus a culturally prescribed form for individual > experiencing' one which he sharply differentiates from intellectual > acquisition of knowledge, entering into 'not by mind alone but involves the > whole of life', or an 'attuning' when 'one has attained a state of > consciousness 'appropriate to the internal order of the schematism > concerned'...'attuned ??. > I hadn't read this mentioned much before I found my way to this book, > seems very relevant to this discussion, though too much for me to take on > at once. The focus that makes it interesting is that Vasilyuk is trying ( > at that time ) to look at ‘a life as a whole’, biography and critical > situations. And struggles of realizing integrity. > Christine. > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca