Epistemological and Methodological Issues Related to the New Challenges of a Cultural–Historical-Based Psychology

Abstract

In the last fifteen years, new theoretical topics developed by different Soviet psychology authors in different moments of its development have been elucidated. Among these topics, Vygotsky's concepts of perezhivanie and sense are particularly relevant because these signalised questions were not in focus in Soviet times; these concepts have remained in shadow for decades. These topics permit advancements in new psychological and complex systems, such as consciousness, personality and subjectivity, that are based on a new foundation. However, this advancement presupposes new epistemological and methodological challenges that, until today, have not been developed within this theoretical account. The present paper discusses the Qualitative Epistemology on which the basis of a constructive interpretative methodology is developed as a path for the study of subjectivity from a cultural-historical standpoint. This paper discusses one case study to make explicit the procedures that rule the construction of knowledge in this methodology.