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IDENTITY FORMATION AS THE PROCESS OF SEARCHING FOR MEANING
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More or less stable elements of human identity are inevitably formed during the whole life of a person through interactive processes and socio-cultural factors. This process builds a system of basic features – somatic, psychical, social and intellectual aspects, which are carried by three levels of identity: biological, psychical and social. Personality is based on the biological sphere as it is the primary structure related to empirically experienced anxiety of existence. The features of primary personality trigger all child’s activities. They determine ecological and axiological horizons necessary for full personal development. Personal attributes, which are developed on their basis, are some kind of generators of individual behaviors and constitute a source of personal SELF in the psychical sphere. It is the psychical sphere that motivates the child to search for meaning. It is only through the dynamic structure of SELF, with personality in the background, personal identity is constructed in the social sphere, which is related to further search for meaning of own existence, presence of the world, own activity in the world and understanding the relation between oneself and the reality. Reflexive and analytical content of this article applies the category of meaning to pedagogy in its theoretical and practical dimensions and attempts to answer following questions: What is the relation between solving basic existential problems within three scopes of identity formation (biological, psychical and social) and the process of finding meaning? What is the role of this process in developing a stable identity? The structure of identity is a foundation for self-awareness, which does not drive individuals to nothingness, but towards fullness of existence and life.
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