Mind, consciousness, the unconscious

Robert W. Rieber

Jeffrey Wollock

pp. 109-121

in: Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock (eds), The collected works of L. S. Vygotsky, Berlin, Springer, 1997

Abstract

The three words given in the title of our essay—mind, consciousness, the unconscious— not only stand for three central and fundamental psychological issues. They are to a much greater extent methodological issues, i.e., issues about principles of the formation of psychological science itself. This was superbly expressed by Lipps² [1897, p. 146] in his well-known definition of the problem of the subconscious which says that the subconscious is not so much a psychological problem but the problem of psychology. [1]