Identity as a constructed text

- Плющ, А.Н. (orcid.org/0000-0001-8398-5148) (2018) Identity as a constructed text Вопросы психологии, 1. pp. 28-39. ISSN 0042-8841

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Abstract

Identity is viewed as a reflexive text produced by the subject in the course of life. In the context of trinitarian methodology the subject is analyzed through the prism of his life world. The dimensions of this world are the subject himself, space and time. Consequently, three ways of organizing identity have been identified: integrity, multiple identity (system), text, which are similar to aspects of mental organization of the subject. Expansion of the identity text (“subject”, “subject in context”, “subject of life activity”) leads to increased constructive complexity (text, text of texts, recursive text). Complexity of the identity text involves various methods of its construction differing in the number of the author’s positions. An integrated text has one author; a system (text of texts) has two: the author of an integrated text and the author of specific texts; in a recursive text another position is added in which the author unites complex texts of separate life stages into an integrated text of life. Multiplication of the number of authors’ positions leads to shaping of the subject who increases complexity of his own mental instrument of constructing the identity text. Reflection as one’s image of oneself is complemented by a two-stage reflection when the subject first reconstructs a certain social contextin which he defines his own role/position which later transforms into “reflection of reflection” when a reflexive text is an attached text of a fragment of life which has an imaginary author. The author suggests a trinitarian conception of identity as an integrated reflexive text; as a process of constructing (a system of) notions of oneself including a diversity of possible contexts for functioning; as an instrument of his mental organization. This approach to identity allows the author to put forward a model of its development. Unfolding of the organization of a complex identity text in the process of its construction is realized in the following ways: expansion of the content of the text; shaping of the author; improvement of the instrument for constructing identity.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	trinitarian approach, identity, text, author, reflection, constructive complexity.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Laboratory for Social Psychological Technologies
Depositing User:	А.Н. Плющ
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2019 12:43
Last Modified:	02 Sep 2019 12:43
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/716936

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