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Though distant in time and style, the two classics of the European culture display a common and deep understanding of the human nature and of humanity’s way of reaching its purpose and truth. Refined observers of human behaviour, they both emphasize, each in his own manner, and with specific artistic means, the human need for self-knowledge and accomplishment, and the way it fails or succeeds in attaining them. With both playwrights, there is no way to self-knowledge and happiness but in the mirror of another cons...

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 trigg...

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving...

Human identity is constitutively ‘historical’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practices…) not only may we modify the meaning an...

In the last couple of years Russia has established for itself a reputation of a partner, whose national and power ambitions, do not know the bounds of international norms, laws, partnerships or governance. However, Russia and its need to build a strong image and curb a superpower place for itself in the international system, has been under way well before the crises in Ukraine, Syria or even Georgia. Actually, the first signs of a stable dominant national and foreign identity, independent and opposing the Western ...

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Theref...

Nowadays we face with the challenge of managerialism that constructs what is called common sense in social management, i.e. which could be interpreted as "obvious" criteria of evaluation concerning purposes and methods of management actions’ implementation. The ideological essence of managerialism demonstrates itself through the activity of groups of interests that is presented as interest of all “progressive” members of society. These groups of interests include state officials, “academic bureaucracy”, media grou...

The relevance of the topic researched is determined by general theoretical significance of synonymy relations in the language connections system. The object of the study is historical digression into synonymy. The subject of the study is synonymy in general. The origins of the consideration of synonymy are reflected in ancient philosophy. Ancient scientists in their reflections on the language form, on the nature of the name drew attention to the existence of several names for the same thing. This feature of the l...

The first weeks of motherhood represent a crucial period in life of a woman and a basis for developing mother – child relationship. ‘First time mother experience’ as an interdisciplinary issue is related to how the first time mother sees herself in a new role, how confident and competent she feels, what influences the process of attaining the new role. The aim of the present review is to provide an overview of current research on the first time mother experience in qualitative literature. Main keywords and phrases...

The processes of national self-identification and globalization are closely intertwined in the life of modern society. It is on this basis that their study and understanding should be carried out in correlation. Globalization is a complex set of factors of influence in the modern world, which determine, among other things, the vectors of identification processes. National identity is formed at the boundaries of multiple cultural worlds. The process of national self-identification is a complex and contradictory uni...

The aim of this work is to analyze the self-portraits of De Chirico with a methodology of psychological investigation. The figurative elements are individually examined in order to understand the psychological determinants of the painter. In order to paint their own portrait, the artists have to deal with the mirror, with their own double, but above all, referring to Winnicott (1990) with the mirroring of themselves in the face of the other. According to Ferrari (2002), in the relationship with the portrait and th...

In article is presented an analysis of the peculiarities of the consciousness and behavior of the student youth in the consumer sphere is presented. Based on a sociological investigation, the models of typical consumer practices of Sverdlovsk region students are outlined. Russia experienced a change of type of culture, value orientations in the XXI century. Formation of market relations contributes to formation of a market-oriented personality type. The concept is based on a relation to consumption as to a termina...

The relevance of the research is explained by global socio-cultural transformations affecting all spheres of the Russian society life. These changes actualized the search for mechanisms to overcome social fragmentation due to the political, economic, religious, ethnic and other crises of our time. The desire of society to reach agreement, in the context of sociocultural unity, overcoming the narrowness of the boundaries of "merger", is now transformed into a more voluminous concept of "inclusion". Inclusion in soc...

The study is an analysis of the literature on the subject in the area of aspects of the transition of a young person from education to the labour market and the related implications for shaping the professional identity. The subject of reflection will also be the professional activity of young people, with particular emphasis on the dynamics and directions of changes on the labour market. A special role in preparing a young person for the transition process may and should be played by career counselling, which in ...