“Phenomenological Factors in Vygotsky’s Mature Psychology” (original) (raw)

The publication in 1900 of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations (second edition 1913, third edition 1920) exerted a profound influence in a number of academic disciplines during the period 1900 to 1915 and just after the First World War. Recent studies have demonstrated the impact of Husserl's project on the inception of the structural model in linguistics and the categorisation of perceptual structures in Gestalt Psychology. The present study looks closely at the articulation of a novel theory of individual psychological development proposed in several later works by Lev Vygotsky , one of the great pioneer Soviet psychologists. Vygotsky attempted to demonstrate that the development of human cognition could best be explained through the dynamic interaction of two processes: the internalization of external particulars and the deployment of symbolic statements through 'inner speech'. In addition to a language of thought, humans have a language for thought, and this is a cognitive and behavioural control language.