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Contemplation as the Research Subject in Psychology
Authors: Garnik V. Akopov
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Social and historical processes in modern Russia determines the high relevance of the scientific and methodical study of the phenomena of contemplation (global – dynamic and social – personal balance (imbalance)).
Concept of "contemplation" is studied in the system of modern psychology categories. Actualization of problems in contemplation complements the new scientific understanding of the well-known opposition “conscious-unconscious”. Contemplation as a term of Philosophy can be compared to a relevant psychic phenomena which potentially can be a process, condition or properties of a subject (individual, personality, individuality).
Further comparison of psychological (intentional) contemplation notion with the basic mental processes (attention, memory, perception, sensation, affect, thought, imagination, action, etc.), mental health (including special) states and the properties of the individual personality, individuality. Contemplation as the mental phenomenon considerably supplements the phenomenon of activity and expands the range of individual and psychological characteristics of personality.
Comparing contemplation to the phenomena of the altered state of consciousness: meditation conditions, mystical conditions and other.