Personality dynamics and social existence [In Hungarian: Személyiségdinamika és társadalmi lét]. Bp.: Akadémiai Kiadó [Academic Press], 1969; 231 p. A
hypothesis on the specifically human basic need (SHBN) with a
structure that is isomorph with a specifically human basic activity: the
work as an activity of arranging in a structure ends and means and
transfering that structure to various parts of its universe. The hypothesis
is based on the Leontievian activity
theory completed by a critical chapter about what is ommitted from the
Leontievian interpretation of Vygotsky ("Social
relation: Self-evidence or probleme?"). A revised version of the chapter about
Vygotsky and Leontiev is re-published: Quo vadis, pp. 207—232. Review:
F. Erös: Personality Dynamics and Social Existence, by L. Garai. European
Journal of Social Psychology. 4/3 [1974]. pp. 369-379. Key
words: specifically human
basic need; activity; development; property relations; structures and
positions; functional organs; personality; production-centered psychology;
Marx; Vygotsky; Leontiev |