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Cultural-Historical Psychology
2007. Vol. 3, no. 1, 13–18
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)

Retrospection and Perspective of Genetic Method

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A.I. Nazarov

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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.

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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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Information About the Authors

Anatoly I. Nazarov, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Head of the laboratory of experimental psychology, Department of Psychology, FSGN, State University “Dubna”, Dubna, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5844-0688, e-mail: koval39@inbox.ru

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