METAMO-MODERN PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT

The formation of a new dominant type of culture at the beginning of the 21st century – metamodernism – required the creation of psychological images of a person that would face the challenges of the modern diverse and contradictory world with its all-pervasive virtualization and the creation of previously unseen simulacra of very high orders. Due to these, arose the need for a holistic syncretic reconstruction of psychology as a contradictory unity of science, art and craft. Metamodernism suggests that psychology go on to describe the nature of the psyche and human behavior, using the language of a new aesthetic form – pragmatic romanticism without ideologies. Why shift the research focus from studying a person’s attitude to self, activities and to other people, to expressing this attitude so that one begins to see the study of psychological problems presented by a person, the way one expresses one’s attitude to them, based on true scale of their meaning for one’s personality. The transition happens from studying “attitude to the problem” to studying “expression of the attitude to the problem” consequently excluding provocativeness and irony from psychological tools, which are replaced by a warm human attitude, which is supported by self-reflection, intertextuality and by various references to other cultural forms of expression of the attitude to the problem. Metamodern psychology does not choose a modernist romantic claim to a deep knowledge of the psyche and human behavior, or a postmodern superficiality of such knowledge, but a metamodern depthlessness, in which the presence of a depth of the psyche is recognized, acknowledging that psychology can occasionally peer into, sometimes revealing things previously unseen by it. Guided by the principle of “fluctuation,” it explores as objects of study trivial psychic and behavioral mechanisms and phenomena that, from a modernist and postmodern aesthetic point of view, habitually seem unattractive, simplistic or trivial to view their always existing natural beauty without irony and change them attitude. It suggests starting to view the psychologist as a go-between the client’s inner world, containing a variety of forms hidden in its movements, and psychological concepts, as a result of which it tightly connects the psychological plan formed in the process of such interaction with its implementation.