Recognizing the continuing volatility of personality as one of the characteristics of integrity, Stern drew attention to the activity of the individual under its interaction with the world. At the same time Stern insisted on the unity of the internal aspirations and external influences on personality, which, in his opinion, through a system of personal goals that unite the individual and the world.
Striving for a comprehensive analysis of relations between the world and the individual, Stern introduced the concept of "depth of personality," which was interpreted by him as one of the basic concepts in general meant and characterized the presence and magnitude of the deep layers of personality, self-sufficient to ensure its existence. Applied the same determination to regard the existence of the identity - the world, Stern drew attention to the fact that the world of the individual ("the world belongs to the person") in terms of content is a life-world, including: the outside world, the current situation, the stimulus material The world of the future, destiny and creative personality.
In contrast to many sociological concepts preceded psychology, stressing the "psychic", Stern sought to show that "there is no psychic and cannot be understood by itself," as some special substance. In the opinion of Stern, "to explain the psychological need to go beyond it and refer to the individual, which is the only true substance and the only real entity, is a precondition for the existence and functioning of the psyche, and only the inclusion of psychology in personality gives it meaning." With regard to the human psyche (not to mind at all!) Of these ideas had a certain sense, opens new possibilities for studying and of psyche and personality. And he insisted on the dominance Stern is personal, because the "mind in relation to the fundamental existence of personality is something accidental, with respect to personal integrity - something fragmentary, with respect to the function of personality - something that has no intrinsic value and obtains meaning only through their involvement in the personality. "
Such an understanding of the relationship "personal" and "mental" has led to the conclusion of the Stern lack of independence of psychology as a science and the need to transform it based on scientific assumptions to address the fundamental question of the importance of psychology in personality.
In the context of personalist understood the essence of the person analyzing the Stern relation of mental and physical, which they regarded as the two paired ways a person experiences his essence and the two directions of spontaneous discharge activity of the individual. |