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Metapsihologija postmoderne globalizirane stvarnosti
Metapsychology of postmodern globalized reality

Author(s): Aneta Sandić
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: metapsychology; postmodernism; globalization; fragmentation; regression to orality

Summary/Abstract: We live in the times when truly unbeliveable technological innovations, until only a few decades ago the domain of science fiction, became extensions inseparable of our selves. Exactly this technological domination which deeply penetrates our daily lives resulted in a quite new occurrence in the history of mankind: globalization. Problems related to comprehension and definition of actual historical, political and cultural condition relate to the possibility that contemporary human, participant in the globalized reality, dwells patrially blind and deaf. As always he tries to find the sense of his existence. But, it seems that the actual predetermined societal frame within which he inevitably finds elements of his choice, thus also parts of his being, is fragmented, contradictory and with increasingly unstable value system. Crucial metapsychological determinant of globalized reality we live today surely manifests itself through fragmentation of identity and marked regressive trend towards orality and inadequate elaboration of the feeling of omnipotence loss. In other words, socio-cultural and political milieu in postmodern globalized reality strongly favorizes maladaptive intrapsychic processes.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 57-58
  • Page Range: 208-222
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian