Abstract: Based on the description of a clinical case, the author studies the phenomenon of incest, - sexual attraction to relatives. The author also illustrates how the first ‘infantile’ sexual experience may lead to neurotic problems in adult age.

Keywords: psychology, phenomenon, incest, Freud, sexuality, neurosis

Abstract: The author addresses to the analysis of his own impressions on the hospitability custom of Azerbaijan nation. When considering this custom, the author also comes to analyze the term ‘national character’. The author views this topic from the psychological point of view.

Keywords: psychology, psychoanalysis, ethnos, national character, hospitability, extraversion, introversion, psyche, individual

Abstract: The author of this article makes an attempt to formulate the root ideas for building the psychology of tolerance. From the psychological point of view, tolerance is a complicated phenomenon with many aspects and many components as well as a few ‘basic dimensions’. The author of the article views the phenomenon of tolerance from the point of view of psychology of personality.

Keywords: psychology, personality, way of interaction, tolerance, intolerance, interpersonal dialogue, existential and humanistic approach, diversification approach, dialogic approach, facilitative approach

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Abstract: The article considers the new paradigm of enactivism in cognitive science. Cognitive psychology is an important element of this paradigm. Mind is viewed as an active and interactive and cognitive activity of the mind is performed through invasion into the reality, e.g. its enactivation. It is shown that enactivism is based on the theory of autopoiesis developed by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Valera at the end of 1960th. The author also describes the parallels with the ideas of constructivism and radical constructivism in epistemology.

Keywords: psychology, enactivity, constructivism, mind, autopoiesis, experience, perception, action, life, cognition

Abstract: The author believes that existential tradition has a very long history. Long before existentialism appeared, Ancient Egypt faced the problem of creative transformation of the world. Based on ancient writings, human strove to experience the Universe. Prophets and magicians received esoteric knowledge from their secret sources, cosmic consciousness or collective unconscious.

Keywords: psychology, human, cognition, magic, archetype, witchcraft, the sacral, symbol, liturgy, conscience, unconscious

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues connected with the analysis of the phenomenon of creativity, in particular, the insight act. The main results of cognitive processing of information are provided by unconscious processes (the stage of the idea incubation). However, since the unconscious is not controlled by the conscious mind, it is impossible to receive any introspective knowledge here. Consequently, it raises the task of developing such a model which would allow to view the reality depending on the observer’s position. In this case we shall see that the ‘unconscious’ processes are a quite familiar part of our everyday experience.

Keywords: psychology, creativity, philosophy, human, insight, experience, reality, ideal worlds, creation, self-cognition

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem related to existing views on the narcissistic type of personality. A number of researchers and schools view this type as a subtype of hysterical personality while others assume it to be an independent personal type. In this article the author tried to analyzed and compare existing approaches in order to find the most valid and effective theories which could be used in psychological counseling.

Keywords: psychology, type, personality, narcissism, counseling, hysteria, disorder, diagnostics, specification, classification

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Abstract: The article describes educational activities at any age as a synonymous to ‘teaching’. Modern psychology and teaching often view human as a complex self-developing system which makes existing approaches to educational activities quite ineffective. The author of the article concludes that, based on the position of post non-classic point of view, interactions of such complex systems with the environment require completely new strategies of organization of students’ educational activities.

Keywords: psychology, teaching, educational activity, organization, biopsychosocial factors, complex self-developing systems, post non-classic picture of the world, new meanings of time and space

Abstract: The article describes the results of the free associative experiment held between students of Moscow Teachers’ Training University who were specialized in English. Students were given 15 words in both languages. They answered very quickly, without thinking, in a corresponding language. Then the author studied similarities and differences in English and Russian verbal associations and measured how fast the response was. It was concluded that the better a student knew English, the faster his response was while the types of associations used were the same in both languages.

Keywords: psychology, teaching, linguistic potentials, free associative experiment, verbal association, ‘language’ personality, categorical, incidence, possessive

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Abstract: The article analyzes the term and criteria features of the phenomenon of maturity from the point of view of various aspects of human development: psychic, psychological, social and personal. The author compared both theoretically and empirically the understanding of psychological maturity from the point of view of science and commonplace logic.

Keywords: psychology, understanding, characteristics, development, maturity, infantilism, consciousness, scientific, common, social, researchers, responders

Abstract: In her article the author tries to reveal the psychological aspects of humor. The author analyzes various theories of this phenomenon and underlines the role of humor in development of the intellect and education.

Keywords: psychology, humor, philosophy, the comic, human, semantics

Abstract: The article reveals the results of research directed to the detection of typical psychological states specific character of the first, third and fifth year students of psychological and technical specialties in difficult situations of study and everyday living. The styles of coping behavior are considered, used with the purpose of their control. In accordance with the specialty study course specific character was revealed.

Keywords: difficult situations of vital activity, self- regulation, psychological states, coping behavior, the styles of coping behavior