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Human emotions and signification in a historical-cultural perpective of human development: a theoretical study of the work of Vygosky

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Author(s):
Lavínia Lopes Salomão Magiolino
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
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Examining board members:
Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka; Angel Pino; Bader Burithan Sawaia; Maria Nazare da Cruz; Fatima Siqueira Caropreso
Advisor: Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka
Abstract

In this theoretical work we seek to understand Vygotsky's elaborations on the issue of emotions. Proceeding through a (re)reading and a deep study of his work, we highlight Spinoza, Freud and Marx among its main interlocutors, and we seek to understand the arguments raised by Vygotsky in dialogue with these authors in discussing the issue. The detailed study of its production, since Hamlet to the text that was not completed about the Theory of Emotions, shows his great concern and sensitivity to the issue in his theorizing on human development. The monistic view of Spinoza, the dynamics and transformation of emotions mentioned by Freud, the status of history in Marx, the dialectical and historical materialism, appear as fundamental contributions that impact the development of Vygotsky's theorizations. Seeking to discuss the problem within the contemporary debates, we inquired about Damasio's investigations in the field of neurology and we bring to discussion authors as Van der Veer & Valsiner, Sawaia, Pino and Clot in the field of psychology. We argue that the central question in Vygotsky's work concerns the development of emotions, which are (trans)formed by the sign, by signification, in the social and individual history. (AU)