The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky

Mind, Consciousness, the Unconscious

The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky 1997 Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock

The three words given in the title of our essay—mind, consciousness, the unconscious— not only stand for three central and fundamental psychological issues. They are to a much greater extent methodological issues, i.e., issues about principles of the formation of psychological science itself. This was superbly expressed by Lipps^2 [1897, p. 146] in his well-known definition of the problem of...