Publication details
Integrální pojetí osobnosti a výzvy doby
| Title in English | An integral conception of personality and the era challenges |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Psychológia pre život. Zborník z vedeckej konferencie k 15. výročiu Katedry psychológie na Trnavskej univerzite |
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| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | integration; integrative function; personal integrity |
| Description | The fragmentary reflection on personality still prevails in the academic psychology. We search for personality units that would clarify most individual differences. Stimuli of such significant schools of psychotherapy as analytical psychology, individual psychology, gestalt therapy, logotherapy, and others, which think of personality as a whole in their basic presumptions, are regarded as mere psychotherapeutic postulates and rather goals of psychotherapy. Stimulus coming from philosophy of holism is considered to be one of many philosophical fictions. It is withal indisputable that, what William Stern has put in the basis of his key work Person und Sache, that is that: “Personalitas est unitas multiplex et variabilis“, and what Anton Jurovský formulated simply and concisely when he stated that personality is each living human being. Personality integrity may be understood in accordance with Werner’s ontogenesis principle as potentiality as well as outcome of each stage of individual life path. The current stage of civilisation attacks people with so many contradictory and dissonant challenges so that it rather supports personality fragmentation, generating risk of deforming quality of life and meaning in life. Mental hygiene programmes and personality education conceptions should therefore aim at value ideals integration support and suitable programme formation. This may be one of the important social tasks of personality psychology. Among others also because of the fact that shall the late newcomers to the European Union become civil societies, it is necessary to study and support in practice making for civic maturity, in which the ideal of autonomy and the ideal of participative community unite harmonically. |
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