To the readers of Vygotsky & Luria's "Studies on the history behavior: Ape, primitive, and child"

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A reader of the excellent English version of Vygotsky and Luria's book "Studies on the history behavior: Ape, primitive, and child" (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1993) edited and translated by Victor I. Golod and Jane E. Knox, might be mystified by the following paragraph:--

If we take into account that the visual images of eidetics may be reinforced by effective stimulation accompanied by pharmaceutical means, we then find it highly possible to accept the suggestion made by the famous pharmacologist Lewin²² that shamans and doctors among primitive peoples artificially induced themselves eidetic activity... (page 99)--

and even more than that by footnote 22, according to which the authors refer to --
²²Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), a German Gestalt psychologist, etc.

Well, as it follows from our recent discussion, this Lewin is most likely not Kurt, but Louis Lewin, M.D. (credits go to ipain). So, feel free to update this footnote in your copies of the book.

В то же время, русскоязычный читатель переиздания книги "Этюды по истории поведения. Обезьяна. Примитив. Ребенок" Льва Семеновича Выготского и Александра Романовича Лурия того же 1993 года (Москва: Педагогика-Пресс, 1993) под редакцией неизвестно чьей, но зато со вступительной статьей "Социальная биография культурно-исторической психологии" от вице-президента Общества психологов А.Асмолова, таких проблем не имеет: никаких вредных сносок, искажающих смысл бессмертного труда классиков отечественной психологии там нет (см. стр. 85), -- вот и славно...