socio-historical and dialogical psycholinguistics
Marie-Cécile Bertau -
University of Munich
Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing
Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing
Actually, it would be more correct to say just on the contrary. We are conscious of ourselves because we are conscious of others [...] I am aware of myself only to the extent that I am as another for myself [...] consciousness is, as it were, social contact with oneself [...]
L.S. Vygotsky, Consciousness as a Problem in the Psychology of Behavior, 1925/1986:278-279
