Abstract: The author continues to study the topic of Protestant ethos. He describes Weber’s views on capitalism and Protestantism and how attitudes to labor and capital changed with time. It is underlined that there is a certain connection between distortions of ethical views on usury and modern world crisis

Keywords: ethics, Protestantism, capitalism, debtors, loaners, world crisis, speculation

Abstract: The author views ethnicity as an anthropological phenomenon. The author shows that it is possible to understand ethnicity not only through analysis of social and economic problems. If we think of human and remember what we know about human, we can see quite unexpected aspects of this matter

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, ethnicity, culture, socialization, projective systems, economy, up-bringing, society

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Abstract: The article is devoted to various aspects of the psychoanalytical conception of Narcissism such as: metapsychology of narcissism, narcissistic conception of corporeity, connection between narcissism and sublimation, narcissism and melancholy as well as ethical aspect of narcissistic experience

Keywords: psychology, narcissim, metapsychology, libido, Ideal-Self, image, sublimation, loss, melancholy, ontology, ethics

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Abstract: The author analyzes Lacan’s works in which Lacan paid much attention at the problems of language, word, sign, letter and speech. He underlined that his method of solving language problems was different from the methods used by psychologists, psychoanalysts, sociologists and anthropologists. Lacan’s dream was to create the ‘science of the object and subject’

Keywords: psychology, Lacan, subject, object, conscience, unconscious, psychoanalysis, sign, discourse

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Abstract: The article is devoted to one of the civilization products, - the structure where personality dies and human becomes just an element keeping the whole system alive. He loses his identity and personality and turns into a creature evaluated and supported by the system in accordance to his usefulness. The author also defined and analyzed the following terms: establishment, labor, work, belief and knowledge. Very few people are able to struggle against the system and this little number includes saints, geniuses and people who manage to keep childish spontaneity and innocence. Such people are not influenced by the structure but on the other hand, they are rejected, repressed and even destroyed by the structure in some cases. Creativity, love and inner beauty of spiritually talented people are the main threat for the structure and its existence

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, God, human, structure, love, creativity, establishment, labor, work, belief, knowledge

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Abstract: This article is devoted to peculiarities of psychological diagnostics in teaching aimed at improving the process of individual teaching school seniors with difficulties of all kinds. The author describes the example of using a valid psychological diagnosis based on only reproducible facts. In the study described seniors enduring difficulties in teaching had a complex diagnostics of personal problems and problems in the child-and-parent relationships. It is proved that a year later, after psychological and pedagogical support (correction) children demonstrated stable improvements in their psychic and emotional state and learning abilities

Keywords: psychology, school seniors, psychological diagnostics, personal deviations, difficulties in teaching, psychological and pedagogical support, correction, psychological diagnosis, catamnesis, programs of psychological support

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Abstract: The article describes the author’s approach to the problem of terrorism based on the psychopathological analysis of this social occurrence. The author also considered the illusions imposed by the political institutions

Keywords: psychology, terrorism, definition, history, forms, sources, illusions, politics, state institution

Abstract: The topic of immortality has always excited the humankind. Many philosophers and psychologists have considered that topic. The author of this article considered the most famous modes of human immortality and described the problems of symbolics of eternal life. The author also added a few modern symbols of human immortality to the described modes

Keywords: psychology, death, life, symbolics, cultural traditions, fear, modus, psychological survival, culture, nature, theology

Abstract: The author studies the phenomenon of prostitution or ‘commercial sex’ as it is called in a politically correct manner. The author describes what he thinks to be the ‘romantic’ side of this phenomenon for both men and women

Keywords: psychology, prostitution, commerce, romanticism, phenomenon

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of psychological diagnostics of learning ability and professional orientation. The author established the procedure of evaluating the volume, pace and orientation of learning capacities through studying personal peculiarities and social meaning of sample terms. The author also gave theoretic grounds for using psychological and semantic analysis of activity. Special attention is drawn at relations between conceptual and emotional aspects of cognition

Keywords: psychology, semantic analysis, operational and motivational elements of psychic activity, relations between formal and individual logics, word and term, sphere of definitions and meanings, learning ability, personal orientation, operational, emotional and