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Valery Kourinsky
Theme 2 : The method of self-analysis and self-studying in autodidactics.
I. The personality's introspection.
1. Dialectics of the unity between the whole (common) and the particular (different; unique).
2. Introspection as the result of other people's judgements about the personality (imprinting).
3. Reduction by the personality of introspective inadequacies and aberrations with the help of
self-analysis and self-studying (Italo Svevo).
4. Release of self-studying from philistine judgements (thinking is not condemnatory).
5. Thinking and self-analysis.
6. Interest and introspection (desire for explanation).
7. Rational observation of inner movements.
8. Development of introspection and concentration of attention (the circle of concentration).
II. Alienation of the personality from one's inner self
1. Unawareness of the actual sense of the "moment of spirituality."
2. Exercising in mechanical movements and routine operations.
3. Low level of self-awareness.
4. Dictate of the social group.
5. The role of the inner censor.
6. Incomplete development.
7. Lack of self-analysis and nomination of phenomena.
8. Corrupted and erroneous guidelines: fashion, education, psychic injuries.
9. Lack of creativity.
10. Complexes, phobias, manias - i.e. psychopathologies on the average.
11. Philistine self-attitudes:
a) satisfaction with the well-being gained and self alienation;
b) inertia of complacency and lethargy as an illusion of well-being;
c) lack of spirituality resulting in the system withdrawn into itself;
d) a world within the world, a state within the state - a philistine as a thing in itself: awareness
of one's inferiority and attempts to justify oneself appealing to the majority;
e) "the greatest philistine is the fuhrer" (G. Broch);
f) preventive measures: "Don't let your soul be idle" (N. Zabolotsky).
III. Self-studying technique.
1. Self-inquiry or appeal to the inner Self.
- "There is a Human Being in every human being" (V. Hugo);
- "Man is an abyss" (F. Holderlin);
- the integrity of opposites;
- sense of proportion;
- regaining of balance with the perception of the outer world.
2. Accumulation of data about the incomprehensible (irrational) part of a personality; extension of
the area to become aware of.
3. Defining the proportions of anxiety. The attempts to become aware of it are always useful for
one's psyche. Anxiety in certain proportion is always present; it is impossible to outlive it,
but it is possible to make it local or drive it out to the periphery.
4. The estimation of the strangers' attitudes to us:
a) account for the stranger's personality;
b) account for inertia of thinking;
c) account for narrowness of routine thinking and judgement (illogic of routine thinking).
5. Self-studying and self-accusation. Comprehension, the fact of being aware is sufficient for
self-analysis.
6. The search for the true Self. The rule: the true Self is half beyond the personality, it is in the
society, in the relations between people, that is why one has to look for it both inside and
outside.
7. Observation from outside, alienation from one's own self; rational activities (the left brain
observes the right one).
8. "The last day status" as a method for identifying true qualities and values.
9. Discovery of the starting point on the scale of values.
10. Cultivation of ambitions as a method for getting rid of sentimentality.
11. On the soul's movements.IV. The imperative moment, the calling.
The role of solitude ("Wolden" by H.Thoreau, M. Montaigne, V. I. Lenin and others).
* * *A grove the dusty cleanness took away
and added me a trouble it to fancy.
The books are standing still, but I am dancy
and indivisible with greeny play
of trees, of miracles that are called a spray
beam that is now like a pencil,
now like a knife. O royal smell of pansy,
of ease inside in hearty tender day!
The bug on the threshold, the sun above
the apple-trees in flowers and answered love,
and some forgotten pain you learn by heart
by whole my body, soul, and every cell
I memorize the life, as if a verse to tell.
And it becomes so longer like an art.
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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