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Filozofia języka a psychologia obiektywna
Philosophy of Language and Objective Psychology

Author(s): Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov
Contributor(s): Andrzej Frączysty (Translator)
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Semantics, Psycholinguistics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: psychology; ideology; philosophy of language; meaning; sign; inner speech;

Summary/Abstract: In this chapter of Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, the authorcultivates a critical, dialectical and transformative reading of texts from the idealisttradition, its aim is to clarify the relationship between psyche and ideology. InVoloshinov’s view, the two psychological schools he discusses – the Diltheyian andthe functionalist – although they have grown up on the basis of idealism, are insome ways completely opposed to each other: the former establishes some kind ofcommunity between the psychic and the ideological in the form of meaning, thelatter strives for a strict demarcation between the two spheres. In the end, we getthe author’s – dialectical – theoretical proposal for understanding this relationship,which at the same time legitimises the existence of a Marxist philosophy of language:a ‘new’ research discipline invoked by Voloshinov in the pages of Marxism and thePhilosophy of Language.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 155-176
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish