This article conceptualizes human emotion as formed within the cultural and historical development of each individual within their society, using theories of emotion created within cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). It examines how the process of the cultural formation of emotion takes place as part of the social development of the personality, intimately tied in with motivation, need and desire. In doing this I review ideas about emotion in the work of the two founding thinkers of cultural-historical activity theory, L. S. Vygotsky and A. N. Leontyev; however, for different reasons their work has its limits in creating a contemporary understanding of emotion. Moving forward, I draw on more recent work on emotions in the field of CHAT, as well as on the work of M. M. Bakhtin, to create a more embodied understanding of the cultural-historical formation of the emotions as part of the dynamics of personality as a whole, including its conscious and unconscious elements.

本文使用文化历史活动理论 (CHAT) 中创建的情感理论，将人类情感概念化为在其社会中每个人的文化和历史发展中形成的。它考察了情感的文化形成过程是如何作为人格社会发展的一部分发生的，与动机、需要和欲望密切相关。在此过程中，我回顾了文化历史活动理论的两位创始思想家 LS Vygotsky 和 ​​AN Leontyev 工作中有关情感的观点；然而，由于不同的原因，他们的工作在创造对情感的当代理解方面存在局限性。展望未来，我借鉴了 CHAT 领域最近关于情感的工作，以及 MM Bakhtin 的工作，