Concrete Human Psychology [Paperback]

1. Introduction
2. A Social Psychology from First Principles
3. Activity, Thought, Language
4. Thinking and Communicating
5. Language: Wanted Alive
6. From Meaning and Mental Representation to Language-Games
7. Speaking, Individual Development, Cultural Development
8. Higher Psychological Functions in and as Societal Relations
9. Double Ascension from Abstract to Concrete
10. From Work to Representation
11. Personality, Identity
12. Documentary Method to Human Learning and Development
13. Epilogue

Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a concrete human psychology, a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of and develops such a concrete human psychology according to which all higher psychological functions are relations between persons before being functions, and according to which personality is the ensemble of societal relations with others that a person has lived and experienced. Correlated with concern for the concreteness of human life and the psychology that theorizes it is the idea that to live means to change. However, none of the categories we currently have inlsÁ