Cultural-Historical Psychology
2007. Vol. 3, no. 1, 13–18
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)
Retrospection and Perspective of Genetic Method
Abstract
The author reviews L.S. Vygotsky's idea of mediated nature of higher mental functions taking into consideration the relativity of the concepts 'immediate' and 'mediate'. The origin of higher mental functions is characterised by different kinds of mediation. Once formed and developed, these functions become immediate, using natural (in Vygotsky's sense) mental forms. Associations can serve as one of such forms; in contrast to the classical understanding, they appear in the last phases of higher mental functions development (and not in the beginning and not due to any mechanistic laws). The author suggests 'extending' the genetic method so that it would include the analysis of the origin of immediate forms in a developed mind that functions, in particular, in form of associations.
General Information
Keywords: genetic method, immediate and mediate, natural and higher mental functions, associations
Journal rubric: Problems of Cultural-Historical and Activity Psychology
Article type: scientific article
For citation: Nazarov, A.I. (2007). Retrospection and Perspective of Genetic Method. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 3(1), 13–18. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/chp/archive/2007_n1/Nazarov (viewed: 17.05.2025)
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