SLAVIC INDIGENOUS PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE ABOUT THE SLAVIC SOUL

Abstract

This article presents a research project that aims to reconstruct Slavic indigenous psychology drawing on an analysis and interpretation of data that was gathered from folk culture (such as myths, rituals, customs) and treated about a distinctively Slavic way of perceiving and experiencing the reality, in particular a Slavic vision of a man and his psyche, which is psychological anthropology. The idea of the soul is a central concept in Slavic psychology and resides at the very foundations of academic psychology, yet has been abandoned and shunted aside by contemporary scientists. Therefore, the research perspective that has been applied for the purpose of this project refers to, on themethodological level, arrangements and achievements of cultural-historical psychology, critical psychology and real psychology, and on the subject level to cultural psychology of religion.