The phenomenology of existence and the possibility of its regulation

The article examines the peculiarities of the dynamics and structure of the individual’s existence. The authors reveal the difference between existence and the irrational, the unconscious and the common features with the psychology of the individual. The authors explore the features of existence in the younger generation through the prism of modern psychological, phenomenological concepts of the philosophy of existentialism and existential fiction. The process of forming a child’s existence is insufficiently researched and is a very relevant topic related to the fate of the younger generation. One of the spheres of public life where the existence of an individual is born is the education system from elementary school to universities, inclusive. At the initial stages of education, attention is rarely paid to the phenomenon of the emerging existence of a little man. Its formation can have a negative or positive, pessimistic-suicidal or optimistic, nihilistic or creative orientation. Based on the analysis of the artistic disclosure of human existence, the genesis of children’s existence in the works of prominent writers of the past and present, the philosophy of the founders of existentialism, as well as modern Western philosophers, the authors formulated their conclusion about the real possibility of directing negational existence in the direction of positive existence, the formation of the psychology of searching and finding meaning in the apparent meaninglessness of life. The authors believe that it is possible to understand and solve the actual problems of phenomenology and contradictions of the existential world of modern man through the formation of a philosophical and psychological paradigm of existentialism. Such a paradigm, according to the authors’ conclusions, is formed by the concepts of “humanistic existence”, “Sisyphean perseverance”, “Christ’s ascent to Golgotha”.

genesis of the individual’s existence, phenomenology of existence, humanistic existence, meaning in meaninglessness, Mount Sisyphus, severity of freedom, choice of Golgotha

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