Individuality: The Unity of Incompatible

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Abstract

The author puts forward a hypothesis concerning a dynamic approach to exploring individuality. He considers dynamic individuality a mystery (a closed, non-additive, incomplete formation) and chooses the metaphor 'individuality as limitedness' as a starting point for his analysis. The author also discusses the idea about the contradiction between the two possible ways of individuality development - centrifugal and centripetal - and the idea of a 'multi-seated' individuality as an attempt to overcome this contradiction. In the light of the dynamic approach individuality appears as a unique innovative and conservative formation providing the process of individualisation - that is, of initiating and maintaining one's continual self-transformation.

General Information

Keywords: individuality, problem of combining stability and development, individuality metaphors, montage, movement and dialogue of metaphors, contradiction of ways of individuality development, 'multi-seated' personality, individualisation

Journal rubric: Discussions and Discourses

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Pechenkov V.V. Individuality: The Unity of Incompatible . Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2007. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 40–48. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Vasily V. Pechenkov, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher at the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education and at the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: vvpech@mail.ru

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