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http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1932/nature-conflicts/luria-conflicts.pdfWe just have the Preface and Introduction at the moment, but the methodological discussion here is intriguing, especially his insistence that it is only *psychological* investigation, based on detailed observation of voluntary actions and consideration of the entire system of the psychological and motor functions, and not *physiological* investigation (as in modern "neuroscience:) which can shed any light on problems of how human actvity can be "disorganised" - and in 1932, this from the guy who is virtually the founder of modern neuroscience.
Andy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Andy Blunden* Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ Book: http://www.brill.nl/concepts http://marxists.academia.edu/AndyBlunden