THE PROBLEM OF MAN IN RUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND BEYOND

The problem of a person in psychology, its formulation and solution are rooted in the development of human and social sciences in general. In Russia, the formation of these sciences had a difficult history. The specificity of Russian modernizations and waves of enlightenment manifested itself in the borrowing of models and intellectual traditions, in the domination of the state over society, in the priority of the instrumental aspects of development over the humanitarian, as well as in the inconsistency and incompleteness of cultural and psychological processes associated with the transformations of the person himself. If the result of the European Renaissance was the emergence of a new type of personality, which then followed the paths of reformation, modernization and enlightenment, then the Russian Renaissance had a weakly expressed form, and its meaning consisted not only in a turn towards man, but also in the revival of European humanitarian values in Russia. The processes of humanization of society, anthropologisation of life and individualization of culture, initiated by the Renaissance spirit, had in Russia the character of constantly renewed, dispersed and latent movements. It is shown that anthropological problems were developed not only in the well-known works of N.G. Chernyshevsky, P.L. Lavrov, K.D. Ushinsky, in the approaches of V.M. Bekhterev, B.G. Ananyev and S.L. Rubinstein, but also in the unobvious activities of G.G. Shpet and GAKhN scientists, in the study of issues of art and architecture, in journalism and literary work. From the standpoint of retrospective and genealogical analysis, it was found that the anthropological turn was carried out throughout the twentieth century, manifested in the development of personality psychology, the psychology of the subject, as well as in the existential and philosophical approaches of postsoviet psychology. The expression of the anthropological approach in psychology was not only the movement towards the construction of human psychology, but also the emergence of the psychology of everyday life, focusing on the changes of the present and the ethnographic diversity of human existence.