Ignace Meyerson

(1888 - 1983) - French psychologist. In the first period of activity involved in the problems zoopsychology and pathopsychology. In the future, created a school bearing his name (Comparative-historical psychology and. Meyerson). In this paper, 'The psychological function and works' (1948) M. developed the principle of historicism in relation to the genesis and development of individual manifestations of mental functions as their objectification of cultural products (morality, law, religion, scientific and mythological thinking, philosophy, technology, and t. etc.), in to-ryh materialize and crystallize the various aspects of the historically evolving human psyche. According to M., to work, being a psychological function, is the foundation of all human creations.