This article explores the study of emotions in the Vigotski work, listing some texts that demonstrate his underlying conception of emotion before the main publishing about this subject, Emotions Theory, written between 1931 and 1933, and left unfinished by the author due to his death. This book, with the recuperation of the philosophic Cartesian base in Psychologies of emotions, introduces the predominant naturalism in Psychological science in the early twentieth century. Vigotsky analyses the need to rescue the dialectic between biological and cultural factors in the emotions constitution, to conceive them in terms of their possibilities of development and transformation, linked to historical and social conditions.
Emotions; historic-cultural psychology; dialectics