Scaffolding" on the Building Called "Psychology of Human"
The purpose of the article is to consider the question existing in psychology which I. Kant asked 200 years ago "who is a man?" This question is still relevant today as well as questions like "what is psychology of human?", "what is personality?", "what is spirituality?" And these questions are about the subject of psychological science. The author, trying to answer these questions, agreed with M.S. Rogovin who believed that "along with the expansion of the field of the psychological research, along with the increasingly differentiated psychology its main object -- a person, is lost; a person who is a product and at the same time a creator of a particular historical period; a person with his joy and suffering, aspirations, success and mistakes -an alive person -- the only real object of psychology. A person was substituted with abstract "psychological mechanisms", "determinative tendencies", "content of consciousness", "acts", "processes", "feedback", etc., which are the necessary scaffolding on the building of scientific psychology. Although these categories aggravate our understanding of the patterns of psyche; and they could obscure the ultimate goal of psychological studies if taken outside the general context of personality and human activities". The author also shares the opinion of A.V. Mazilov, saying that "when a subject of psychology is replaced with "a unit" (a cell) the complete product disappears". From the author's point of view A.F. Lomov is also correct suggesting that "any individual category captures only one aspect of the studied reality and has a limited scope of application". The author draws attention to the fact that the absolutization of certain categories occurred in psychology at the first stage of its development as an independent science, when the science was in search of its subject of study. The author suggests considering a person as a subject of psychology from the viewpoint of the integral and value paradigm; as a biopsychosocial (value and meaning) formation.