WHEN HAVE VYGOTSKY,L.S. AND HIS SCIENTIFI C SCHOOL APPEARED IN PSYCHOLOGY

The beginnings of L.S. Vygotsky's scientific career in, psychology are described. Most of the studies place it in 1924, when L.S. Vygotsky c ame to Moscow from Gomel and together with A.N. Leont'ev and A.R. Luri a founded <<cultural-historical school>>. The author argues that there were previous periods of scientific work: Moscow cow pre-Revolutionar y (<<Hamlet>> treatise), Gomel (<<Pedagogical psychology>>) and Moscow earlier post-revolutionary (defectology studies, <<Psychology of art> >). The author criticizes A.M. Etkind's views on determining influence of S. Freud's follower S. Spielrein and her concept of <<inclination to destruction>> on L.S. Vygotsky: on the contrary, L.S. Vygotsky and A.R. Luria presented their own interpretation of <<death instinct>> - creativeness is social opposition to it.