Anatoly Volynets. On the mechanism of inner dialogue development

Anatoly Volynets, fellow researcher
Scientific Research Institute of Psychology, Kiev, Ukraine

Abstract
Keywords: intoning, interiorization, images of people, image of self, inner speech

While all known models of psyche created within black-box methodology, the presented one is derived from proven fundamental processes: child's intoning the speech of others', following movement or contours of surrounding things with child's fingers', arms', pupils' while child's own speech, ear, etc. and behaviour are forming (Spinoza, Luria, Leontiev).

These processes allow to rethink Vygotsky's interiorization. The primary interiorization leads to development of inner active independent agents: "images of people". Each agent aggregates the look, voice, etc. of its prototype. The agents form initial psyche, act and appear in child's behaviour, particularly in speech. This, in turn, initiates child's secondary interiorization of his speech and other activities (while developing another inner agent: "image of self" communicating with the images of people) and change in milieu behaviour, communication style and attitudes toward child.

The changes in milieu and child's behaviour determine a crisis which starts a new cycle of child's development under the same scenario. Autonomous , egocentric, inner speech logically derive from the dynamic of double interiorization. Inner speech masks voices of images of people in self perception. Hence, the images of others make subconsciousness and mechanism of unavoidable dialogue of Self with itself.