Piaget and Levy-Bruhl.
History of psychology August 1, 2000 G Jahoda
The French philosopher Lucien Levy-Bruhl's concept of a "pre-logical mentality" characterized by "mystical participation" strongly influenced Jean Piaget's early work on children's thinking. Piaget first showed interest in 1920 and later compared children's thought to that of "primitives," adopting Levy-Bruhl's term "participation." By 1928 Piaget argued that both children and so-called primitives are subject to social constraint—children by parents and teachers, primitives by elders—and that logical thought emerges only through cooperation in free social interaction. Piaget maintained these views long after Levy-Bruhl himself abandoned the notion of pre-logicality.