"The Way to Freedom"
@article{Zavershneva2010TheWT, title={"The Way to Freedom"}, author={Ekaterina Zavershneva}, journal={Journal of Russian \& East European Psychology}, year={2010}, volume={48}, pages={61 - 90} }
This article precedes publication of Lev Vygotsky's October 1932 notebook from the family archive of Gita Vygodskaya (the scholar's daughter). These notes are a unique historical document: they mark a major theoretical shift in Vygotsky's research program owing to the birth of the idea of a semantic structure of consciousness. The notes include the plan of a book on the problems of consciousness, which was supposed to be a large-scale answer to the methodological crisis in European psychology…
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