Meaning-creating resources of myth-building applications
The article concerns substantiation and development of the thesis about meaning-creating resources of myth-building applications, which determine their powerful potential in a process of self-development and self-design of a personality. Author’s concept is based on the thesis, that both empirical generalizations of individual experience and internalized «ready» socio-cultural concepts of a mythological nature are conditions of generation of new meanings by a personality. The foundation of hermeneutical concept of myth-building is its understanding as a process of formation, updating, accumulation, ordering, transferring of myths and myth-like constructs by culture and their further interpretations and reinterpretations by a personality, the process which permanently takes place in socio-cultural space/time and contributes to construction of both socio-cultural and internal realities of a person. By summarizing of concepts by D.A. Leontiev, A.M. Lobok, A.S. Sharov the author presents her understanding of the mechanism of mythological meaning-creating. An attempt to «smooth out» the contradictions in categorical opposition «actual being-in-the-world» versus myth is made. Interdependence of these categories of experience in the process of personality’s self-organization is explained. The importance of myth as a factor for the formation of personal design is discussed. The role of myth as a «meaning-carrying reality» in the process of self-designing is emphasized. The author analyzes the meaning-creating function of myth. Understanding of meaning as a probabilistic construct of personal myth is substantiated. The author describes the resources of myth as a large-scale context for «actual being-in-the-world»: fixation on a broad perspective leads to understanding the possibilities scope of a personality and his life horizon.