«To realize the nature of one’s own actions and rules means the possibility … not to depend on them, to be freed.» A thesis to which any psychologist would subscribe, but this insightful book about the modern collective unconscious was written by an anthropologist and specialist in folklore Svetlana Adonyeva.
«To realize the nature of one’s own actions and rules means the possibility … not to depend on them, to be freed.» A thesis to which any psychologist would subscribe, but this insightful book about the modern collective unconscious was written by an anthropologist and specialist in folklore Svetlana Adonyeva. The book consists of separate chapters-plots that resonate in each of us: motherhood, «secrets», New Year, Pushkin, Eternal Flame, May Day … Reflection on the meaning we have invested and continue to invest in these symbols and rituals is built on the intersection two spaces equally interesting to the author: the traditional way of the Russian village and the cultural imperatives of the Soviet people. But this work, in which a huge variety of historical material is mastered and comprehended, is not about the past. It is about our present: how to “figure out what is not creative, mass, reproducible in my and the general living of life”, in order to stop feeling like “Pavlov’s dog” and meaningfully accept or reject the inherited inheritance.
Amphora, 287 p.
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