Personality in a changing and brittle world: new phenomenology and methodology

Abstract

The current situation is considered from the point of view as a situation of the transitive and uncertain world in which a person develops and selfactualizers. This assumption raises questions about how personal growth and the maintenance of emotional stability are harmonized. The aim of the article is to consider the concept of personality brittleness in the external and internal plane, as well as the investigation of the modern contradictory empirical phenomenology of personal development and self-realization. The reasons for the imbalance between uniqueness and typicality declared by young people of the Z generation are revealed. The phenomenon of the «red pill» and ambivalence between understanding the new concepts of brat and wellness and behavior is described. Caring for one’s emotional well-being contrasts sharply with the growing number of depressions, suicides and self-harm. The desire for complete independence often contradicts with the motivation to remain in the parental family even in adulthood.Materials on behavior in the Internet space are especially contradictory. On the one hand, immersion decreases and awareness during observing and creating posts increases On the other hand, the number of phobias and disinhibiting grows. Based on the historical-genetic approach and theoretical-methodological analysis, a variant of constructing a methodological structure is proposed. This structure would make it possible to collect and systematize the existing contradictory facts. As an option, it is possible to construct a methodology as a complex gestalt, a scheme with permeable boundaries. The methodological technique for its creation is estrangement, which makes it possible to present phenomena in their real position. In a single methodological gestalt, theoretical concepts should be combined with practical approaches to coping with difficulties. The psychology of everyday life is proposed as such an approach.