The theme of the subject's constitution has been characterized as object of updated discussions within different areas of knowledge and most specifically in severeal theoretical-methodological orientations in Psychology. This matter is relevant because it enquires about the object of this science as well as the way it is approached. Based on the presupposition of the eminently social character of human gender, it brings out the need of entering into dialogue with other areas of knowledge as well as delimiting specific areas of analysis, which allow the psychological science to develop and justify itself as locus of knowledge. The historical-cultural psychology perspective says that the human specificity comes from the dual relation established with reality: through activity the human being assimilates culture and concomitantly develops himself as person. Consequently, the singular dimension is inexorably developed and it develops social, which can be known as otherness, as well as the other's dimension or the relations with the other. Additionaly, other issues need to be inquired, such as the consciousness, the unconsciousness, and the affections, which will be discussed here having as reference the theory of Vygotski.
Otherness; myself-other relations; historical-cultural psychology; L.S.Vigotski