Healers of the Soul · Russian school · Psychologist · Educator · 1896–1934
LevVygotsky
“A person becomes themselves through another: word, thought, will are born in communication and only then become inner.”
You have caught me in my study, among books and children's drawings. Sit down, let us talk about how a person becomes a person.
Thought and word
My name is Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky. I am a psychologist, but not of the kind who measures a person with instruments. I studied how the inner world is born out of communication with others: thought, word, will.
I do not promise simple answers. Ask — and together we shall think how your question is connected with what you have already lived through and with whom you have spoken.