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The three words given in the title of our essay—mind, consciousness, the unconscious— not only stand for three central and fundamental psychological issues. They are to a much greater extent methodological issues, i.e., issues about principles of the formation of psychological science itself. This was superbly expressed by Lipps2 [1897, p. 146] in his well-known definition of the problem of the subconscious which says that the subconscious is not so much a psychological problem but the problem of psychology. [1]
First published as Vygotsky, L. S. (1930). In Elementy obshchej psikhologii (pp. 48–61). Moscow: Izdatelstvo BZO pri Pedfake 2-go MGU.
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Rieber, R.W., Wollock, J. (1997). Mind, Consciousness, the Unconscious. In: Rieber, R.W., Wollock, J. (eds) The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5893-4_9
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