Vygotsky's Thought and Language. A commented reading to think about the study and analysis of subjectivity (Scientific essay)

Abstract

This writing is about a reflection on the sociocultural theory in psychology that should give us light not to follow in the footsteps of Vygotsky, but to learn from him, which is not the same. I base myself on three statements to support the reflection. First, we are not invariable, at best we keep changing and given the change, we cannot count on universal and eternal principles. Change, becoming is a condition of existence and as such, there is dating of what we think, are, aspire to. Second, starting from the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin, there is no rest, inertia, comfort, or tranquility. There is instability, uncertainty. And this because we are contingent, situated beings, who are being, are about to be but will never be, our condition is to become, but without being. That is why existence stands as the present. Third, taken from Nietzsche, even what we think is the most rational, which is knowledge, has arisen from clashes of points of view, from intertwined powers. And that knowledge is also a passion. These three statements serve to assume that Vygotsky never showed a finished theory, and not because what has been said that he died young, but because he was in constant search confronting his thought with the established psychology of his time