Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality:
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Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology
Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology

Author(s): Dmitry Leontiev
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: character; personality; inclinations; attitudes; endopsychic; exopsychic

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the dynamics of psychological viewsof A.F. Lazursky (1874-1917), author of one of the first theoriesof personality in the world of psychology. There aretwo stages in Lazursky’s work: the first is associated withthe concept of nature as an internal individually-typologicalbasis of personality, and the second one is determinedby introduction and more intensive development of ideasabout an attitude towards the world as an important componentof the personality structure. The primary aim of thearticle is to highlight the role of Lazursky in internationalpsychology.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 55-69
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English