He knew that the family had no money, but he really wanted to — and he bought the last pigeons. The wife wanted to kill him, but she screamed her feelings, cried out — and the intention was gone. Leaked out…
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The girl was an organism. Becomes a personality.
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Two strong people are talking here, able to make strong decisions and, at least, restrain themselves. Katya and Gosha are personalities.
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In accordance with the views of the synton approach, in interaction with the outside world, a person sometimes behaves like an organism, sometimes manifests himself as a person.
The main difference between these two ways of being is that it is natural for a person as a person to live with the help of reason and will, thinking and making decisions. This does not mean that the human organism does not have a mind and will: he has a mind and a will, but he does not use them often, preferring impressions and prejudices to the mind, and internal feelings and emotions to the will.
At work, where turning on the head is part of the labor functional, and the will is replaced by instructions and orders from the management, the difference between a person-personality and a person-organism may not be noticeable. It manifests itself when people leave the institution, when personal life begins. If a person, once in the wild, begins to be guided not by his mind, but by feelings and emotions, this is the way of life of the body.
The girl calls the young man because she cannot help but call, although she understands that calling now is stupid. A young man buys a bottle because his body needs alcohol… It’s another matter when a girl considers it internally necessary to control her emotions and impulses, when a young man goes to fitness or to study, not because he really wants it, but because he wants it for himself outlined and this corresponds to his plans for life. This is the way of life of a person-personality.
Each of us has an organism, and each of us, as an organism, needs to eat and sleep. This is a reality, and the need to satisfy one’s physical needs does not yet make a person an organism. A person begins to live like an organism, if he lives only by his needs, feelings and sensations, without thinking, without using his mind, or even drowning out his voice.
Every person has an organism, but a person can accept the way of life of an organism and live like an organism. Down is just an organism. Your neighbor, a normal beer drinker and football fan, is not down, but lives like an organism. This is not his biology, this is his way of life, once a personal choice, but more often the result of circumstances.
It’s hard to become a person when you don’t know about such a possibility, when everyone around you lives like organisms and everyone insists that it’s right to live like everyone else … But someone chooses the way of life of an organism as easier, especially since it is not difficult. When a person identifies himself with an organism or subordinates himself to an organism, he very quickly becomes only an organism and soon forgets about the possibility of being a person.
If we live like an organism, being a human weighs us down, we are in a hurry to return to our normal existence as an organism. If we live as a person, then it is not shameful for us to be an organism sometime, but only once. We eat to live, but we don’t live to eat!
For more details, see the articles: Man-organism and Man-personality.
At present, in the literature and at trainings, in one way or another describing their vision of a person, psychologists most often care about being understood, so that their readers recognize themselves in their descriptions. As a result, the portrait of a person turns out to be an organism swaying with emotions and driven by needs. In such a description, the role of feelings is usually emphasized and distrust is instilled in reason, which only justifies irrational and not at all lofty human aspirations.
How to treat it? It must be admitted that such a description is realistic, it is largely true. At the same time, we must not forget that the representation of a person in psychological literature not only reflects reality, but also forms it. The picture of how a person lives performs not only a descriptive-presentative, but also a normative function. Describing a person in the status of an organism, we voluntarily or involuntarily inspire people with not the highest life patterns. By telling people about life in the status of a person, we help people to live in the status of a person, to live as people.