ABSTRACT
In order to give visibility to the presence of a Marxist frame in Vygotsky's writings and the inventive way in which it is processed, the authors chooses as the focus of analysis the work Imagination and Creativity in Childhood. Right at the beginning of Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, Vygotsky introduces the idea that the human brain is characterized by an enormous plasticity because it is able to transform its structure through excitation, as well as conserving past experience, thus facilitating its reproduction: if the brain's activity were limited merely to retaining previous experience, a human being would be a creature who could adapt primarily to familiar, stable conditions of the environment. According to Vygotsky, in order to create, we root ourselves in previous experiences and in the available material of the present, these being, at the same time, the synthesis of events that enabled the current conditions. Imagination, according to Vygotsky, is a condition for creative activity.
