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ABSTRACT PALACIOS, Guilherme. The formation of personality, an unapproved study. 2016. This theoretical research aims to synthesize the concept of personality from the perspective of Cultural-Historical Psychology. To achieve this, we start with a bibliographical study of reflexology psychology from the scholars Pavlov, Bechterev, and Kornilov. To highlight these theoretical contributions to the development of the concept of personality, we get acquainted with the thoughts of Lev Semionovich Vygotsky, in Obras Escogidas; following which, we present the implications of his cultural-historical theory for school education. Based on this dialogue, we discuss cultural-historical theory, the precursor of the psychological matrix comprising the human psyche, as well as phylogenetic and ontogenetic dimensions, based on a new psychology that considers the historical and cultural developments and contributes to the uniqueness of higher mental functions as an expression of human genericity. This cultural-historical perspective—developed by Vygotsky and his Soviet collaborators with a methodological view of historical and dialectical materialism—has conceived a new scientific psychology which has led to the understanding of man’s social essence. The personality of man in a given society comprises the process of cultural appropriation and objectification that was historically developed in the concrete relations of life, therefore, concrete man. The result of this study comprises the concept of personality interlaced in the formation processes of the human psyche and affective-cognitive unit. It is therefore understood that the formation of personality as a continuous learning process comprises human relations—cultural-historical and social—that is, a process of humanization that occurs with the contributions of school education. In this sense, the concrete man’s essence and social existence has achieved its individuality and product development from a capitalist system by being immersed in the concrete conditions that contribute to the formation of his personality before the drama dynamic to which it belongs as a social subject.