Xenomania in the guise of xenophobia: intimidation for the sake of foreign domination

Abstract

The article reveals a psychological dichotomy of foreign language borrowings, which, like disabled prostheses, are used by a Ukrainian person in the absence of certain bodily organs, there is no  x e n o m a n i a, although the borrowed and obsessively implanted xenophobia is actively settled in the mass consciousness of citizens. Long since, Ukrainians have been dissuaded from xenophobia, they’ve been accustomed to perceiving foreign as their own and, moreover, to the directed perception of foreign as much better than their own, in order to then accuse them of stealing other people’s intellectual property and of the innate inability to create a worthy one of their own. In this analytical context, the prejudice that the Ukrainian language exclusively borrows other people’s words and concepts is wrong, because without this it is incapable of full functioning – creating its own lexical forms to reflect the ever-changing world. An attention is paid to the psychological means of destroying the consciousness of Ukrainian generations as colonized, for whom any speakers-units of other languages, except the humiliated language of the conquered people, were suitable. The main thing in this psychosocial humiliation is that the superior uses linguistic constructs incomprehensible to the aborigines, confusing and disorganizing their consciousness. A psychological mechanism of the violence of the external over the internal is highlighted, as a result of which the processes of psychomental maturation acquire those manifested forms that make it impossible for the appearance of acceptable ones. The external fills the lacuna of the internal, and thereby the civilization receives a standardized and therefore secondary personality, stamped in his internal on the conveyor belt of the external expansion of psychosocial pressure. Examples illustrate a psycho-content landscape of societal dangers of devaluation of one’s own, and with it, of every citizen, by exalting a foreign, not created by one’s own efforts, work, and mind. The basic principles of psychohygiene of a human and society are revealed that determine the balance of mutual attitudes, in violation of which dysfunctions, disharmonies and, as a result, pathologies of functioning are arisen. It has been noted that the dysfunction that arose under the influence of adverse circumstances leads to disharmony, first of all, in the perception by Ukrainianity their own We-image and Self-image by every single person in it, which is dependent on distorted public self-esteem. The main psychohygienic principle of a social balance between stability and changes is substantiated, which requires psychologists to restore the balance of attitudes in the dichotomy of xenophobia and xenomania, that the proposed article invites readers to study.