The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky (original) (raw)

Volume 1

Problems of General Psychology

Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

Prologue to the English Edition, Jerome Bruner

1

The Development of Vygotsky’s Thought: An Introduction, Norris Minick

17

THINKING AND SPEECH

Preface

39

Chapter 1. The Problem and the Method of Investigation

43

Chapter 2. The Problem of Speech and Thinking in Piaget’s Theory

53

Chapter 3. Stern’s Theory of Speech Development

93

Chapter 4. The Genetic Roots of Thinking and Speech

101

Chapter 5. An experimental Study of Concept Development

121

Chapter 6. The Development of Scientific Concepts in Childhood

167

Chapter 7. Thought and Word

243

LECTURES ON PSYCHOLOGY

Lecture 1. Perception and Its Development in Childhood

289

Lecture 2. Memory and Its Development in Childhood

301

Lecture 3. Thinking and Its Development in Childhood

311

Lecture 4. Emotions and Their Development in Childhood

325

Lecture 5. Imagination and Its Development in Childhood

339

Lecture 6. The Problem of Will and Its Development in Childhood

351

Afterword to the Russian Edition, A. R. Luria

359

Volume 2

The Fundamentals of Defectology
(Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities)

Vygotsky and Soviet Russian Defectology: An Introduction, Jane Knox and Carol B. Stevens

1

Part I: General Problems of Defectology

Introduction: Fundamental Problems of Defectology

29

Chapter 1: Defect and Compensation

52

Chapter 2: Principles of Education for Physically Handicapped Children

65

Chapter 3: The Psychology and Pedagogy of Children’s Handicaps

76

Part II: Special Problems of Defectology

The Blind Child

97

Principles of Social Education for the Deaf-Mute Child

110

Compensatory Processes in the Development of the Retarded Child

122

The Difficult Child

139

Moral Insanity

154

The Dynamic of Child Character

153

Defectology and the Study of the Development and Education of Abnormal Children

164

Part III: Questions at the Forefront of Defectology

The Study of the Development of the Difficult Child

173

Bases for Working with Mentally Retarded and Physically Handicapped Children

178

Fundamental Principles in a Plan of Pedological Research in the Field of “Difficult Children”

184

The Collective as a Factor in the Development of the Abnormal Child

191

Introduction to Ia. K. Tsveifel’s book, Essay on the Behavioral Characteristics and Education of the Deaf-Mute

209

Introduction to E. K. Gracheva’s book, The Education and Instruction of Severely Retarded Children

212

The Problem of Mental Retardation

220

The Diagnostics of Development and the Pedological Clinic for Difficult Children

241

From Addresses, Reports, etc.

292

Afterword

302

Volume 3

Problems of the Theory and History of Psychology

Some Major Themes in Vygotsky’s Theoretical Work. An Introduction, Ren� van der Veer

1

On Vygotsky’s Creative Development, A. N. Leont'ev

9

Part 1: Problems of the Theory and Methods of Psychology

Chapter 1: The methods of reflexological and psychological investigation

35

Chapter 2: Preface to Lazursky

51

Chapter 3: Consciousness as a problem in the Psychology of Behavior

63

Chapter 4: Apropos Koffka’s Article on Self-Observation (Instead of a Preface)

81

Chapter 5: The Instrumental Method in Psychology

85

Chapter 6: On Psychological Systems

91

Chapter 7: Mind, Consciousness, the Unconscious

109

Chapter 8: Preface to Leont'ev

123

Chapter 9: The Problem of Consciousness

129

Chapter 10: Psychology and the Thery of Loclaization of Mental Functions

139

Part 2: Developmental Paths of Psychological Knowledge

Chapter 11: Preface to Thorndike

147

Chapter 12: Preface to B�hler

163

Chapter 13: Preface to K�hler

175

Chapter 14: Preface to Koffka

195

Chapter 15: The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology: A Methodological Investigation

233

Epilogue, M. G. Yaroshevsky and G. S. Gurgenidze

371

Volume 4

The History of the Development of the Higher Mental Functions

Chapter 1: The problem of the Development of Higher Mental Functions

1

Chapter 2: Research Method

27

Chapter 3: Analysis of Higher Mental Functions

65

Chapter 4: The Structure of Higher Mental Functions

83

Chapter 5: Genesis of Higher Mental Functions

97

Chapter 6: The Development of Speech

121

Chapter 7: Prehistory of the Development of Written Language

131

Chapter 8: Development of Arithmetic Operations

149

Chapter 9: Mastering Attention

153

Chapter 10: The Development of Mnemonic and Mnemotechnical Functions

179

Chapter 11: Development of Speech and Thinking

191

Chapter 12: Self-Control

207

Chapter 13: Cultivation of Higher Forms of Behavior

221

Chapter 14: The problem of Cultural Age

231

Chapter 15: Conclusion; Further Research; Development of Personality and World View in the Child

241

The Question of Multilingual Children

253

Epilogue

261

Volume 5

Child Psychology

Part 1: Pedology of the Adolescent

Chapter 1: Development of Interests at the Transitional Age

3

Chapter 2: Development of Thinking and Formation of Concepts in the Adolescent

29

Chapter 3: Development of Higher Mental Functions during the Transitional Age

83

Chapter 4: Imagination and Creativity in the Adolescent

151

Chapter 5: Dynamics and Structure of the Adolescent’s Personality

167

Part 2: Problems of Child (Developmental) Psychology

[See Vygotsky's Unfinished Theory of Child Development, by Andy Blunden]

Chapter 6: The Problem of Age

187

Chapter 7: Infancy

207

Chapter 8: The Crisis of the First Year

243

Chapter 9: Early Childhood

261

Chapter 10: The Crisis at Age Three

283

Chapter 11: The Crisis at Age Seven

289

Epilogue

297

Volume 6

Scientific Legacy

Tool and Sign in the Development of the Child

Chapter 1: The Problem of Practical Intellect in the Psychology of Animals and Psychology of the Child

3

Chapter 2: The Function of Signs in the Development of Higher Mental Processes

27

Chapter 3: Sign Operations and Organization of Mental Processes

39

Chapter 4: Analysis of Sign Operations of the Child

45

Chapter 5: Methods of studying Higher Mental Functions

57

Conclusion

61

The Teaching about Emotions. Historical-Psychological Studies

Sections 1-20

71-235

On the Problem of the Psychology of the Actor’s Creative Work

237

Epilogue

245

Texts not included in the Collected Works

Lectures on Pedology (1933-34) Russian

Part I. The foundations of Pedology

Lecture 1: The object of pedology

Lecture 2: The characteristics of the method of the pedology

Lecture 3: The study of the heredity and the environment

Lecture 4: The Problem of the Environment

Lecture 5:The general laws of the psychological development of the child

Lecture 6: The general laws of the physical development of the child

Lecture 7: The laws of the development of nervous system

Part II. The Problem of Age

The concept of pedological age

The problem of the periodization of children's development dependent on age

The structure and dynamics of the age

The problem of age and the diagnostics of development

The crisis of age 3-7

The negative phase of the transitional age

The school age

Thinking of the schoolchild

The Psychology of Art (1917)

Educational Psychology (1926)

Ape, Primitive Man and the Child (1930)

Play and its role in the Mental development of the Child (1933)

In the Vygotsky Reader

Introduction to Freud's Byond the Pleasure Principle, with Luria

Principles of Social Education for deaf-dumb children

The Socialist Alteration of Man

Thought in Schizophrenia

Fascism in Psychoneurology