THE PECULIARITIES OF KNOWING THE SUBJECT’S PSYCHE IN ITS PRALOGICAL ESSENCE

Abstract

The article reveals the prelogical essence of the psyche, which is marked by the absence of contradictions, in contrast to logical thinking. Attention is focused on the archaic heritage of the psyche, which serves as the basic carrier of the prelogical regularities of its functioning. In the empirical part of the article, an analysis is carried out of the manifestations of prelogical thinking inherent in the modern human being, outside their awareness. Prelogical thinking becomes “observable” under conditions of visualisation of the psyche, which is realised through the semantic-drawing self-presentation of participants in the psychocorrective process. The disclosure of the semantic parameters of “prelogicality” requires the psychoanalytic elaboration of thematic psychodrawings, which this article presents. Prelogical thinking is capable of becoming actualised in a situation of objectification of the psyche and subsequent analytic-dialogical analysis performed with consideration of the mechanism of participation. Psychoanalytic analysis shows that prelogical thinking, as the initial form of comprehending experience, determines the way the subject experiences their inner world, where contradictions are not perceived as dissonance but appear as a “norm” of the primary organisation of the psyche. It is precisely as a result of such prelogical assimilation of experience that deep semantic matrices are formed, which contribute to the fixation of an internal conflict. Later, contradictions function as a hidden regulator of behaviour, preventing the logical comprehension of one’s own psychic reality. It is stated that prelogical thinking, in its deep structure, not only determines the mode of functioning of the psyche at the unconscious level but also forms the basis for the emergence of internal contradictions which, once stabilised, determine personal difficulties and destructure the logical components of thinking within the socioperceptive continuum. The role of the mechanism of participation is clarified as a means of objectifying meaning, which is set by the objectification of the psyche and by describing the semantic structure of prelogical thinking in the dynamics of the ASPP psychocorrective process.