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The birth of a person is an event that makes a person out of a person. Births of a personality are the moments of a biography when a person is reborn into a personality, creates himself as a personality.
The idea of the birth of a personality is possible only with a certain understanding of the personality, namely:
- personality is not just a natural or social subject, it is a cultural subject — a subject directed in a positive direction. See →
- a person is a person who builds and controls his own life, a person as a responsible subject of expression of will.
With this understanding, a child at birth is not a person, but can become one. Or maybe not.
From this point of view, Freud’s patient is the one who was not successfully born for the first time, he does not know which social group he should “attach”, his family was not all right, and he does not consider it “his”. In addition, he was not born a second time, because he does not understand the difference between I and IT.
The idea of the birth/births of a person is close to the following authors: K. Jung, A.N. Leontiev (see →), existential psychologists, N.I. Kozlov (see →).
The birth of personality and the theory of Erik Erickson
The epigenetic theory of Erik Erickson can be considered as the theory of successive and natural, naturally given (certain) personal births. Erickson’s emphasis is not on whether you will be born in the next stage or not, but whether you will pass it or not. See →
Personality is born twice
In the activity approach of A.N. Leontiev, the formation of personality is the same as its birth. Only, according to A.N. Leontiev, a person is born twice. In the first birth, immediate motives begin to obey social norms, in the second, a person (adolescent) begins to realize and subjugate his own motives. Already not only motives control him, but he can also control his motives. See →
Personality crises and the birth of personality
Personality crises can be considered as a certain stage in the development of personality, however:
- studies show that a positive assessment of the results of the crisis for the individual (rethinking life, opening new horizons) is a rather rare thing, no more than 5% (V.V. Kozlov. Personality crisis — structural and gender features. http://www.zi- kozlov.ru/articles/1120-personalitycrisis).
- it must be taken into account that a personality crisis is the result of personality development on negative motivation, and it is more preferable to develop not a positive attitude towards personality crises, but to orient people towards positive motivation in their personal growth and development. Look →
It seems that with each new birth a more developed personality can be born. The first birth of a personality, a second birth… Or, having gone through a crisis, a personality can break down and degrade. The first death of a person, the second death…