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On the Self-concept. Language Games: zero total?

On the Self-concept. Language Games: zero total?

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Recieved: 02/03/2017

Accepted: 02/19/2017

Published: 03/30/2017

p.: 39-44

DOI: 10.11621/npj.2017.0105

Keywords: personality psychology; individual; ; psychoanalysis ; philosophy

Available online: 30.03.2017

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Zinchenko, Vladimir P. . On the Self-concept. Language Games: zero total?. // National Psychological Journal 2017. 1. p.39-44. doi: 10.11621/npj.2017.0105

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Zinchenko, Vladimir P.

Abstract

In his work, the author compares and analyzes such concepts as human, person, personality, entity, individual, and self. He considers the views of major philosophers and psychologists of the past on these concepts. There are ideas of P. Florensky, A. Losev, G. Shpet, L. Rubinstein, L .Bozhovich, A .Leontiev, S. Freud and other scientists writing on the content, functions, origin and value of the psychological phenomena mentioned above. The views of a person, individual, and Self have undergone dramatic changes over time. Russian philosophers wrote about the impossibility to define the individual, they considered it a myth, miracle, mystery, and at the same time limit of self-construction or self-creation. Russian psychologists dropped the concept of individual below the concept of personality, and even equated with the subject. In addition, for a while the identity was considered a product of the collective. The notion of Self is considered in a similar way. It is either identified with the subject or object, or it is said to propagate using vegetative means, or like the individual may manifest properties of a soluble substance. However, the Self is recognized to be characterized by generating creative abilities and functions. Psychoanalysts first considered Self as a mental institution, then as a main authority or substructure of personality. S.Freud builds a topology of the following structure: Ego, Super-Ego, Id, each of them performing their own functions and keeping their own energy. S. Freud spoke about the historical implications of mental acts. Considerable attention is paid to the origin of Self. The development of the Self does not occur automatically, and there are concepts put forward by the psychoanalysts and psychologists.

The author emphasizes that the paper compares psychological approaches to personality and psychoanalytic approaches to the Self. In psychology, we are dealing with a person (a person?) without Self. In psychoanalysis, we are dealing with Self, but without personality. Both psychologists and psychoanalysts tend to reduce the Self to the individual, subject, representative, or mere body.

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Zinchenko, Vladimir P. . On the Self-concept. Language Games: zero total?. // National Psychological Journal 2017. 1. p.39-44. doi: 10.11621/npj.2017.0105

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