VYGOTSKY: THE WILL OF THE SPECIALIST

Abstract

This article analyzes the last publications of Vygotsky, in which he insisted on
the introducing into Psychology the category experience. The symptoms of an experience
are: individuality, situational reaction, intentionality. The use of the category experience
allows to consider a person as a unity of human personality and environmental aspects,
and to assert (to judge) the nature of a persons attitude to a piece of reality. The article
gives reasons for the failure of the project of giving grounds and ways of usage of the ca
tegory experience (Leontiev, Elkonin, Bozhovich, Vasilyuk), and the possibility of its
feasibility in modern psychology. The emphasis is put on the necessity to adopt the postmodernism
methodology. It is stressed that it is important to study a personality as a unity; a
person is unique, so the analysis of separate cases is in no case less reasonable than
the statistical generalization; the main psychological individual reality is experiencing by a
person of the world and of himself in the world.