Рефлексивното ученическо портфолио като средство за активизиране на самопознанието

Author(s): Mariya Prodanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

This text presents the results of a research on the impact of the self-reflection portfolio on developing self-knowledge skills of students compiling. 24 students from VIII-th grade of the Vocational School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics – Plovdiv have participated in this research.To realize the goal of the research the following methods are used: pedagogical monitoring, testing and inquiries. The analysis of the data from the tests and the inquiries shows that the enrichment of the self-knowledge of the students leads to a more stable and accurate self eva-luation.

Sherry by Eliane Lima (USA, 24 m. 2017)

Author(s): M. Kennedy Volcofsky / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Фридрих Ницше – новата религия на метафизическия нихилизъм

Author(s): Rosen Rachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Human life is an endless sequence of problem situations and ways to overcome them. Friedrich Nietzsche proclaims doubt and nihilism as forms of existence in problem situation. They are the foundation of the „reassessment of all values“. This reassessment is oriented to traditional, approved and wide spread principles and norms in society. The skepticism is an initial position and a transitional stage of denial. If someone denies something without thinking of it, he acts emotionally. Friedrich Nietzsche is a nihilist because his attitude is based on doubts, which are rationally motivated. In this paper the arguments are derived from his books “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “The Antichrist” and “Twilight of the Idols”.

За реалността и посоките във времесъзнанието (Част 1)

Author(s): Kosta Bentchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

This article raises the question concerning the reality of time through the concepts of cyclic vs. linear movement. These concepts are supposed to ground the basic dichotomy that is carried out as an analysis of time-consciousness. So called “segments” of time – past, present and future, are characterized as modalities (necessity, actuality, possibility, contingency) which in their turn are being interpreted as different kinds of parts within some broader complexes that comprise relations between the categories of the similarity and the difference. From this view-point, certain critical remarks are mentioned against the concept of time as being something of a substantial nature while moving from the past through the present and towards the future. At the end of the paper, the question concerning time is related to the traditional themes of Western metaphysics. They are assessed as having their origin in the position rooted in the opposition between continuum and discreteness. This final dichotomy is presented as what has been intended from the very beginning of the exposition under the guise of the initial dichotomy concerning the opposition of cyclic vs. linear movement.

Калист Kатафигиот: съзерцанието – „плод на обожението“

Author(s): Dimitar Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

This text aims to discuss the ideas of Сallistus Cataphugiota elucidated in the treatise On union with God and life of contemplation. The work advanced the main idea that contemplation is “fruit of deification“. Different definitions of contemplation, its three stages and final goal – deifying unity with the transcending Unity, were put forward. The article aims to illustrate the significance of the theology of contemplation, developed by Callistus Cataphugiota for Hesychastic tradition and Orthodox spirituality.

История на човешката еволюция (част 2)

Author(s): Kiril Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The present work is an attempt to broaden the biography of the autonomous individual. Contrary to the conception of the inborn sociality of a person that deprives him of his uniqueness and refuted by various manifestations of mental disorders, the idea of an individual way of life could explain some contradictions and paradoxes in his behavior. Being alone in nature and without physical contact with similar individuals, he had not only to develop and improve his sensitivity and the way of perceiving reality, but also to change the metabolism of his own organism. Losing instincts by changing connections with reality, he manages to turn objects into a source of information, providing him certain and safe means of survival. That information will became his personal environment unattainable for animals. An environment, which purpose is to function as an untouchable, invisible „territory“, i.e. as a consciousness.

Fiction and Faction Perplexity in the Historical Discourse

Author(s): Nysret Krasniqi / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

In this article the whole argument lies in discussing a close relationship between history and literature on the generic basis especially due to the long path of theoretical and philosophical coherence. From Antique to Postmodernism, the generic coherence of hybrid discursive formations dictated perplexity of defining perhaps separating the very idiosyncratic composition of them. Thus, this article deals with the philosophy of history in terms of its reflecting on literary discourse or in philosophy of literature. This ambiguity provoked many discussions hereby melted within the philosophical ideas and literary theories with the prior aim finding best possible ways toward idealized truth both in the discourse of history and literature.

Neurodivergence Enminded/Embodied: Living with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Author(s): Douglas E. Kidd / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This article positions my experiences as a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor relative to other TBI survivors and in context of persons with disabilities (PWDs) living in the United States and the world. This autoethnographical account (by autoethnography I understand a method or form of social research that serves the purpose of exploring personal experiences of the researcher) examines the life of a neurodivergent individual whose brain functions in ways that deviate significantly from social norms. I explore profound changes to my identity and the resultant social disconnection I encounter since acquiring a severe TBI more than a decade ago. The profound alterations to my identity affect my ability to process, and then adjust, to the demands of my surroundings. As I decode, decipher and process the world, at times my brain damage triggers and/or produces episodes of temporal dissonance. As these shifts in timing occur, they have tremendous impact on my emotional stability. Despite these outward difficulties, I celebrate my altered awareness of time and new identity as a disabled person. Connecting relevant critical trauma studies scholarship to the themes addressed here, the article examines how moving through trauma, coma and amnesia to a new life with cognitive, emotional, psychological, and physical impairments importantly enriches expression of my humanity. I will demonstrate the salient aspects of my new life – emotional sensitivity and volatility – may on the surface seem detrimental and undesirable; however, these qualities greatly enhance my identification with and empathy for others, which in turn drive my artistic, social, cultural and political expression, along with my quest for community.

Mind and Body Transformations through Visual Art

Author(s): Ann Millett-Gallant / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This essay narrates my experiences as a congenital amputee and survivor of traumatic brain injury (TBI) through analysis of artwork. With art history and art therapy, I have cathartically mediated conscious and corporeal loss. I will analyse key visual examples to illustrate my disability, trauma and mind/body transformations. The article maintains that trauma is not an isolated event, but a conscious, collective and dynamic phenomenon.

Borderline Knowing: (Re)Valuing Borderline Personality Disorder as (Counter) Knowledge

Author(s): Sarah Redikopp / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This article explores Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as an epistemic standpoint defiant of dominant Western knowledge frameworks, which are (supposedly) rational, objective and linear. I engage with feminist, critical psychiatry and Mad critiques of BPD as a medicalization of trauma and ameliorate these critiques by engaging BPD as both a psychiatric diagnosis and as a (non-pathological) response to traumatic experiences. I conceptualize the ‘borderline standpoint’ as a subversive epistemology and examine the capacity of queer-crip temporalities to meaningfully engage with the borderline standpoint, arguing that a framework of queer time is useful insofar as trauma (and borderline knowing) are necessarily nonlinear. Ultimately, I employ concepts of queer-crip time, including the works of Alison Kafer and Elizabeth Freeman, to open new avenues of engagement with the ‘ugly’ affect of borderline and to embark on a maddening epistemological project.

Invincible yet Vulnerable: Race, Disability and Trauma in South Africa after Oscar Pistorius

Author(s): Nontsasa Nako / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

When the global sporting icon, Paralympian and Olympian Oscar Pistorius was accused of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp on the morning of Valentine’s Day in 2013, one of his many defences was, simply put, that his disability made him do it. An expert witness for the defence made the connection between disability and violence that suggested that disabled people are particularly prone to ‘over-react’ as it were because they feel especially vulnerable. This defence provides the link between the two extremes claimed by Pistorius’s public persona, that of invincibility and vulnerability – extreme physical ability epitomized by sterling sporting prowess and fear of victimisation because of his physical limitation. The formula proposed by this defence is that extreme vulnerability results in extreme aggression. Here I want to analyse what this claim suggests about prevailing social attitudes toward disability and disabled people, particularly in post-apartheid South Africa – or more accurately in post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) South Africa. In this article I propose that the corrosive legacy of TRC created rich ground for white victimization and popularised the medical model of trauma.

Nouveaux anciens paradigmes : Approche orientée objets, Classes d’objets, Psychologie écologique et Linguistique

Author(s): Wiesław Banyś / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2018

In this text we will briefly discuss some examples of the influence of the chosen philosophy and epistemology leading in a natural way to a change in research paradigm and consequently to a change in methods of linguistic description. We will present two types of situations: • The situation where one arrives at the same types, basically, of descriptive methods in the same discipline starting from different philosophical and epistemological foundations, generally without being aware of it or without having specified them (see, e.g., Predicates-Arguments Structures vs Object-Oriented Approach vs Classes of Objects vs. SketchEngine). • The situation where one arrives at the same types, basically, of descriptive methods in different disciplines starting from different or similar philosophical and epistemological foundations (see e.g., Object-Oriented Approach, Classes of Objects vs Ecological Psychology / Incorporated Radical Cognition). In a “good method”, descriptive methods derive from the philosophical and epistemological foundations adopted consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes, if the choices are more operational and more practical applications oriented, in “normal science”, in T. Kuhn’s terminology, one must go backwards to discover these foundations from the chosen descriptive principles. At the same time, different philosophical foundations can lead to the same types, at least roughly, of descriptive methods of reality. The descriptions made in the framework of different paradigms, like these paradigms, are complementary and, in the last instance, “cumulative”, thus giving a more complete description of the reality, which, while submitted to different visions, does not, naturally, change.

Структуриране на личността в психоаналитична перспектива

Author(s): Silviya Kristeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

This paper will search to offer a model of the whole-integrated personality with encompassing the structure, the areas and the internal specifications and connections in the personality universum. For this purpose we will follow and derive the basic conceptual models which exist and generalize what personality is in our comprehension. This also will be a phenomenological reconstructing of fundamental types of projections in personality constituting – we will derive the initial approaches to the world of I-instance in Descartes and Kant, but basically we will define the process personality in Hegel as the result of process-ending of the pure thought system. We will also draw for consideration Heidegger’s model in analyzing the personality as an event, as a phenomenon of the live and actual human presence in the world. Thou the essential goal is reconstructing the three-instance psychoanalytical model which will be considered in unexpected configuration by drawing together of S. Freud’s and A. Maslow’s personality depth-structuring. The hypothesis raised up here is: Maslow’s pyramid of basic needs, in its hierarchy reflects a general structuring of the levels of the personality universum, with this the areas of integrity, continuity and I-projecting of whole personality will be formed.

История на човешката еволюция

Author(s): Kiril Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The present study reveals a new approach of understanding of human evolution reasons. Humans are formed because of a conflict with himself own, but not by a conflict with the nature. As a result of that conflict, the species survival means are no longer successful, and human beings are prompt in searching of individual tools to survive. By that reason, they are forced to abandon their instincts, passing from biological to psychological level of defense. During the evolution process, new models of surviving among the fellows appear. These relations between individuals formed a new biological kind – the Mankind. In their essence these models are instruments of mimicry and misguidance, which paradoxically lead to rapprochement between individuals, transform them into social objects. In the phylogenetic memory of modern men, they appear as mental disorders. Actually, every mental illness is an attempt to throw back the consciousness to ancient models of surviving, created in the evolution process.

Моралната идентичност

Author(s): Dimitar Bogdanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

In the present article is presented the problem of the moral identity which is related with the notion of the identity and the moral functioning of the self. There is a definition of that what is moral identity – combination of moral opinions, understandings, emotions and representations of our own self. The author presents several theories about the moral motivation and actions: theories about the moral thinking, theories about the moral emotions and theories about the moral identity.

Политическият инфантилизъм или „болният здрав разум“ на човека-в-политиката

Author(s): Dimitar Tafkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The paper reflects on two main questions: "What is a political infantilism?", as well as - "Why do political people do evil?"

Рефлексия в обучението и стремеж към собствена значимост

Author(s): Stanislava Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

Praxeological reflection was studied by means of self-assessment of 21 students. Coincidence between self-appraisal of one’s activity and other students’ evaluations was present in 14% of the cases. Self-appraisal of one’s activity was higher than other students’ evaluations in 81% of the cases. Self-appraisal of one’s activity was lower than other students’ evaluations in about 5% of the cases. Research of personal reflection indicated that 33.6% of 134 students frequently thought of their present and future significance. Almost the same number – 32.8% thought of future glory and recognition. 79.9% declared that they possessed many undiscovered abilities, that they had not known themselves. Striving for one’s significance and reflection in the study are related.

Рефлексивна природа на его-състоянието Възрастен

Author(s): Irena Levkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

The ego states have not been studied considerably in the world psychology literature and they have mostly been studied in respect to their behavioral aspects. The paper presents a hypothesis about the nature of the Adult based on the theoretical views on reflection via which the specific functions of the Adult ego state could be explained.

Visual and Language Codes of Basic Existentials in Heidegger’s Being and Time

Author(s): Aneta Tumbeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article will present Heidegger’s philosophical concept in Being and Time, which disclosed the human existence through the problem of time. Heidegger creates his own conceptual language through which the visibility of the environmentality directs to Dasein and to the ready-to-hand world. Existentials outline the dimensions of Dasein in the basic constitution of the Being. Their presenting leads to the division of zones of the existence, the human world and its existential constitution – Dasein reveals its possibilities to be and its existential basic state. To present the scope of Heidegger’s existential analytic, the following Existentials can be structured: World, Everydayness, Care, Death, and Conscience. Each and every Existential will be considered through its visual and language codes.

Иван Кинкел: За произхода на религията

Author(s): Stoil Mavrodiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article examines Ivan Germanicch Kinkel‘s psychoanalytic views on the origin of religion. His methodology and contribution to elucidate the phenomenon in the socio-cultural and historical context is presented.