Identifying elements of reality transformation: dialectical movement and development

Abstract

This article aims to present the concept of movement and some of its impacts on historical-cultural psychology through a literature review of Brazilian academic research that adopts the term centrally. The studies listed are linked in some way to dialectics and do not provide a definition of the term. Through the bibliographic review, it was possible to understand that the core of the dialectic that gives movement to reality is contradiction. In Vygotsky's historical-cultural psychology, development is a process of human formation characterized by the emergence of new specific human qualities at each stage, which defines human movement, both externally determined and also self-directed. A possible definition of movement was established in relation to the dialectical materialist process of qualitative transience permeated by contradiction. This can be observed in the development process as understood by Vygotsky. It then becomes more feasible to analyze whether it occurs in different contexts and to identify processes that may, in fact, represent potential revolutions, such as development at the ontogenetic level and in contrast to situations of stagnation or even apparent and alleged changes.