Words to Ponder #8

24 Oct Words to Ponder #8

This week’s words are from Fred Newman’s and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem.

To reshape our emotional practice—

to decide

for ourselves

what it is we want to do

with anger,

joy,

humiliation

and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity

(which is nameless)

and with the emotions newly created

through/in the activity of

building community that redefines subjectivity—

we must make the tool

which makes this

possible.

                                                                                                                   Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

*The paragraph in which this appears is on page 183 of the 1993 edition

and page 154 of the 2013 edition.