HISTORICAL APPROACH IN DEVELOPMENTAL-PSYC HOLOGY - FROM PRINCIPLES TOWARDS PROBLEMS

Some principles of the social-historical approach to the human mental development are discussed as a problems. It is claimed that the concep t of history will be affirmed in future as an explanatory principle in genetic psychology. Manifestation of mythological thinking in this fi eld of scientific knowledge are considered. Analysis of cultureproduci ng, creative possibbilities of individual consciousness reviewed in hi storical perspective is considered as a source of amplification of his torical approach in developmental psychology.