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Vorobyeva L. I. , Snegiryeva T. V.
Personality's psychological experience: concerning the substantiation of an approach
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The authors endeavour to attach theoretical status to the notion of "psychological experiences" and so to introduce existencial personality problems and life-sense connections to scientific research. The consciousness is considered as universum of existence experience. The sense of life of a personality becomes system-forming mechanism of consciousness. The sense of life is of cultural-symbolical nature and is realized in cultural-historical gestalts (myths, idealogisms and so on). Inheritance of sense of life mechanisms are different from rational knowledge acquisition. Some of them are well-known in psychology: emotional imprinting, identification, emotional experince. Authors' approach synthesizes different traditions and enables the researchers to realize two of L. S. Vygotsky's cultural-historical concepts: creation of "high psychology of personality" and accumulation of empirical knowledge in psychological practice.