Ethnopsychological dimensions of Ukrainian character in the Olexandr Kulchytskyy’s concept

Abstract

The article is devoted to the highlighting of a creative heritage of the Diaspora’s Ukrainian psychologist-thinker O. Yu. Kulchytskyy, namely, the question of identity, an individuality of the Ukrainian person, the conscious desire for the identity of which is equally detrimental to both the individual and the whole psychocultural and national movement, if the last one goes under this sign. A special attention is paid to the ethnopsychological socio-historical scientist’s views, which are based on the principles, themes and concepts of deep-systemic understanding of the Ukrainian soul and national character. In particular, a number of features of the Ukrainians social psyche, the mechanisms of its origin and development, as well as the processes of its positive and negative form-properties forming are substantiated. The basic characteristics of the Ukrainians’ spiritual world, which are disclosed by Kulchytskyy due to the realization of the resources of structural psychology of E. Rotganer, O. Lersch, and others. And this means that there are three layers distinguished in human psyche: somatopsychic (semantic feelings), timopsychic (feelings and related to them attempts), post-psychic (thinking and conscious will). It is concluded that strengthening of personal forming of Ukrainians is possible in active socio-political behavior of communities, in overcoming the “inferiority complex”, in strengthening regional-strong-willed unity of population and power, in those powerful noble potentials that are rooted in the soul of the Ukrainian people. A the same time it is proved that the Ukrainian dignitary O. Kulchytskyy in a deductive way created a holistic and original concept of Ukrainian character, and he paid tribute to all those philosophical and purely psychological ideas that determined his time and his communication.