Wallin, J. E. W.

Elhammoumi, Mohamed; Gross, Shoshana; Freyberg, Robin; Morris, Edward K.; Fortugno, Dominick A.; Knobloch, Clemens; Glick, Joseph; Devonis, David C.; Barone, David Patton; Banerjee, Padmini; Genthner, Glenndon C.; Denmark, Florence L.; Paludi, Michele A.; Rowden, Ashley S.; Mitchell, Angela D.; Rieber, Robert W.

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“…Original Contributions -Originalbeiträge and Adhémar Gelb's "primary dissertation supervisor", "who was a profound influence not only on the first generation of Gestalt psychologists but also on the philosophers who formed the nucleus of the unity of science wing of logical positivism including Hans Reichenbach and Herbert Feigl" (Devonis, 2012). Curiously, Cassirer, the "last German idealist philosopher", as he is often referred to and a former student of the leading philosopher and-among a few othersa founder of German Neo-Kantianism Hermann Cohen, was a cousin of another member of the Gestaltist network, Kurt Goldstein, and his influence on the latter's thought was also quite notable.…”

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

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2021

Gestalt Theory

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Original Contributions -Originalbeiträge and adjust our views on the possible theoretical meaning of this larger German/ Soviet network of like-minded individuals, yet cum grano salis and also necessarily keeping in mind the differences between them. Both ways of analysis are possible and quite legitimate: dissimilarities and similarities are equally important. Yet, differences notwithstanding, the following sections will be treated from the perspective of this very-specific and idiosyncratic-Soviet positive reception of Gestaltism that came about on the grounds of their theoretical and methodological similarities (and resemblances) and the search for, figuratively speaking, the "lowest common denominator", which I believe are of considerable promise in the context of the tasks and challenges facing psychology in the 21st century, specifically, the lack of and the need for a unifying general psychological theory, yet to come about, possibly, as a transdisciplinary field of knowledge under the label of "pragmatic Anthropology", as I proposed earlier (Yasnitsky, 2021d). The discussion is based on my earlier-somewhat tentative and preliminary-text on "Field theory", which was written for and published in a multivolume book titled "Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology" (Yasnitsky, 2014). The word "critical" in the book's title is not incidental, and that small paper was intended to discover the unusual facts and perspectives, the "anomalies" that are frequently ignored in traditional narratives. Now, I would like to revisit this earlier research, question some of its proposals, and expand its findings beyond the limits of its original, relatively narrow topic.The following part of this paper suggests a few theoretical points related to Soviet-German-American intellectual proximity and convergence, but inevitably-partly because of the limits on paper length -only in the most schematic, fragmented, and tentative form, in a few broad brushstrokes, for the purposes of providing the reader food for thought, the grounds for further critical discussion, and, whenever needed, unbridled yet fair, rational,, and argumentative criticism. Gestalt Theory as a Cultural Anthropology of PersonalityOverall, Vygotsky's science was clearly some sort of anthropology-cultural anthropology, to be precise-even though the word as such is definitely not an element of his vocabulary and despite his identification as a psychologist. Just consider the title of the book (Vygotskii & Luria, 1930): "Etudes on the History of Behavior. Ape, Primitive, Child" (alternatively, the first word of the title can be translated as "essays" or "studies"). This is the book of 1930 by Vygotsky (the author of roughly a half of the book, the first two smaller chapters out of the three: on "ape" and "primitive", respectively) and Luria, who was the author of the last chapter, which, unlike the first two, by its author's admission, was "based … mainly [on] our material gathered in the experimental studies of child behavior" (Vygotsky & Luria, 1993, p. 37). The book,...

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Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond: Toward Pragmatic Anthropology

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