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E. Cassirer (1928) tells of a patient with complex disturbances of higher intellectual functions whom he observed in a Frankfurt neurological institute. This patient could previously repeat a phrase he heard with no difficulty, but could now relate only real situations that matched his own concrete, sensory experience. One time during a visit in clear and bright weather, he was asked to repeat the sentence, “The weather today is bad and rainy.” He could not do this. The first words were pronounced easily and confidently, then the patient became confused, stopped and could not finish the sentence as it was said to him. He always made a transition to another form that agreed with reality.
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Rieber, R.W. (1998). Imagination and Creativity in the Adolescent. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5401-1_4
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