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Imagination and Creativity in Childhood

VYGOTSKY, LEV SEMENOVICH·2004·Journal of Russian & East European Psychology
DOI 10.1080/10610405.2004.11059210
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We call any activity of a person that creates anything new, creative activity. This includes the creation of any kind of inner world or construction of the mind that is experienced and observed only in humans. Looking at human behavior, we can distinguish two basic forms of construction. One form of activity can be called reproductive, and is closely connected with memory, its essence consisting in a person's reproducing or retrieving traces of previous impressions. When I remember the house in which I spent my childhood or a remote country I sometimes visit, I reproduce traces of the impressions I obtained in early childhood or at a time of a journey. In general, in all these cases this activity of mine is not creating anything new; basically, it is more or less just a return of what was.

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Authors
VYGOTSKY, L. S.
Venue
Journal of Russian & East European Psychology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2004-01
Volume
42
Issue
1
Pages
7-97
ISSN
  • 1061-0405 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-0415
DOI
10.1080/10610405.2004.11059210
OpenAlex
W2200624006
Cited by
1,690
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11.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
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