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ABSTRACT
This article talked about the concept of the mentality of the nation and its structure. The main signs of the mentality
of the nation were analyzed. In this, the works of foreign scientists on the topic were widely used.
KEYWORDS
Mentality, nationality, mentality of the nation, bio-social concept, psychoenergetic level, unconscious level,
automated level of logical thinking, collectivism unconsciousness, archetypes.
INTRODUCTION
Sociality is the activity, behavior of groups and an
individual, not only of a political or economic nature,
but also of a spiritual nature. During the study of the
spiritual and psychological aspects of human activity,
philosophers also pay special attention to the issue of
mentality. Mentality forms the core of group culture
and personality spirituality. Including without
knowledge of the basis, composition, function and
types of mentality, it is impossible to understand the
laws of the socio-historical process.
The mentality of a nation is an ancient form of the
mentality of any socio-cultural group. The reason is
that any form of mentality is a modification of the
mentality of a nation.
There is a common view in the culturalogical and
philosophical literature, according to which the
mentality of the nation has a dual character. In one
way, it occurs in psychological, biological, deviant
cases in connection with unconsciousness, in the
Research Article
THE CONCEPT OF THE MENTALITY OF A NATION AND ITS STRUCTURE
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Shrazaddinova Amina Aleuatdinovna
Doctoral Student Of Karakalpak State University, Uzbekistan
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other, it occurs in connection with society, culture,
upbringing. Scientists who approach the mentality of
the nation in a bio-social way, give the main link to the
automated and unconscious movement of the
mentality structure.
The concept that analyzes the mentality of the nation
from a bio-social view is based on: L.N.Gumilev's theory
of passion about the future of the factor of
ethnogenesis, K.G.Yung's theory of collective
unconsciousness-archetype, including representatives
of the idea of automatism I.Kant, F.Englis and J.Piaje
views.
Ukrainian philosopher R.N.Dodonov developed a
three-level model of the structure of the mentality of a
nation based on the bio-social concept, thanks to
which he tried to illuminate the transition of the
mentality of a nation from generation to generation, its
main elements, as well as the mechanism of formation.
In this model, the mentality of the nation includes the
psychoenergetic level, the level of unconsciousness
and the automated level of logical thinking. Each of
these levels differs from each other depending on the
level of development of information in its composition.
Their commonality is determined as a result of the
mechanism of succession and the mechanism of
transmission of information received during their
lifetime. [1,35]
Views on the existence of a psychoenergetic level of
the mentality of the Nation belong to L.N.Gumilev.
Based on L.I.Vernadsky's argument that the Earth's
biochemical energy exists in the noosphere,
L.N.Gumilev develops the hypothesis that every living
organism has an energy field that generates the
biochemical energy of living things. If the energetic
model of the force field was applied to the question of
nation, then there the nation could see itself as the
nation's system of excitation. Thanks to this, we can
know the differences between nations.
L.N.Gumilev dreams of the energetic level of mentality
with the co
ncept of “passionality”. In Gumilev's
opinion, passionarity is a descriptive dominant, an
internal desire (energy) that arises in a member
(person) of the population of one or another nation
and cannot be returned. This inner desire or energy
forms stereotypes of new behavior. L.N.Gumilev
believes that passionarianism is only transmitted
genetically. It cannot be passed on through education.
[2,280]
The second structural level of the mentality of a nation
is collectivism unconscious or archetypes. This level of
mentality was noted by K.G.Yung. K.G.Yung identifies
that during the practice of psxioanalysis, that is, in
sober patients, symbolic images or ideas appear that
cannot be identified without looking at his subjective
way of life. It can only be determined by looking at the
history of the nation to which it belongs. K.G.Yung
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refers to such a psychic state of man as the collective
unconscious. This form of unconsciousness in the case
of “collectivism unconsciousness” is not individualistic
in nature, but it is general in nature. [3,97-98]
Collectivism is concerned with the ethnic or social
origins of unconsciousness. It reflects in itself the
intelligence, feelings and desires of our ancient
ancestors.
Collectivism, in which the history of the existence of a
nation or human being is recorded, is the essence of
the
unconscious
archetypes.
Archetypes
are
antiquated types of worldview. To some extent, the
concept is in essence consistent with the concept of
“collectivism
-
imaginations” used by K.Levi
-Bryul in
defining symbolic figures of the ancient worldview.
However, there are differences between the concept
of “archetype” and K.Levi
-Bryul's concept of
“collectivism
-
imaginations”. Collectivism is a symbol of
the imagination the basis of the mentality of the nation
is characteristic of the ancient period, when it was just
being formed. These collectivism imaginations have
not yet passed to the level of unconsciousness and
have existed in the form of exhaustive conscious
actions. In the case of archetypes, K.Yung believes that
consciousness expresses psychic content that has not
undergone processing, and that they express
immediate psychic reality, thus being significantly
different from historically formed and processed
exteriors. Archetypes are symbolic images or formal
patterns of character, on the basis of which separate,
meaningful images are formed that correspond to
stereotypes of conscious activity and human behavior
in real life. Archetypes instinctively affect a person.
[3,98-99]
Thus, K.G.Yung conceptualizes the content of
archetypes as forms and patterns that are collectibles
and are found almost all over Earth as structural
elements of myths. Archetypal motives come from
archetypal images in the human mind, which are
passed on to the next generation not only through
traditions and programs, but also as a result of
genetics. K.G.Yung believes that this hypothesis is
necessary for science, the reason is that even the
weakest archetypal images can be reproduced on their
own without any programs. Archetypes serve as a
constructive organizer in the history of ethnic groups,
providing communication between generations,
periods, cultures.
Proponents of bio-social orientation call the for-profit
level of the mentality of the nation psychic
automatisms, which are inherent in the human mind
and are primarily associated with logic and
mathematical structures. From the point of view of Bio-
social orientation, imaginary automatisms are
biologically the successor of the next generation. The
fact that human thinking reproduces standard
procedures in a non-interrupted type during its
previous experience sooner or later leads to the
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automation of their realization, and the essence of
these procedures becomes a mental stereotype and is
preserved in its genetic way.
Thus, proponents of the bio-social concept of the
mentality of the nation come from a methodological
system that indicates the possibility of strengthening
the experience accumulated in the morphological
structure of a person. Including covers information
about the technology of the cognitive process, the
processes of the environment and the methods of
reflection.
The three-level model of the mentality of the nation
gives rise to the following scheme of the formation of
psychic structures. The most favored methods of
thinking become thinking habits, axioms, "thinking
methods", whose affirmations are fixed by succession
(the level of thinking), and then these affirmations
move into unconsciousness, become archetypes (the
level of unconsciousness), and in some cases are not
directly
related
to
thinking
(the
level
of
psychoenergetics).
Thus, from the point of view of the bio-social
orientation , the mentality of a nation is a natural and
social environment, which represents the lowest level
of Social Psychology, reflects the basic conditions of
life of society and people there, is aimed at adapting
the psyche of an ethnic group to exist in a certain
period, is based on the development and
strengthening.
This model of the mentality of the nation gives an
opportunity to explain many psychic automatisms.
However, in our opinion, within the framework of this
model, more complex forms of the mentality of the
nation operating in the field of iskusstvo, ethics, law
and politics cannot be understood. In addition, the
views of the bio-social orientation in explaining the
mechanisms of transition of psychic structures do not
coincide with the conclusion of genetic scientists-
people-that their phenotypic signs obtained during
their lifetime are not strengthened in the genotype and
are not succeeded by genes. The genotype changes
only as a result of mutations, which is relatively rare.
For this reason, we consider the socio-cultural
approach more effective, considering that the special
features of the mentality of the nation, the mentality
of a particular ethnic group , are formed in the process
of its historical formation and development and remain
in the memory of that population-its culture for a long
time. In this view, such socialization mechanisms are
passed down from generation to generation through
imitation, education, etc. From the point of view of the
socio-cultural orientation, the mentality of the nation is
a kind of imaginary manifestations of people from the
past. Crezism is also a psychological daterminant of the
behavior of millionth people, who, in any context, are
loyal to their historical "code". [4,30]
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A.P.Butenko and Y.V.Kolesnichenko defined the
mentality of the nation -
“a mass consciousness,
cultural stereotypes, reinforced by a certain unity of
character, historical tasks and ways to solve them,
reflecting the historical fate of the state in the culture
of its peoples.” [5,99]
In our opinion, two vertical levels can be distinguished
in the structure of the mentality of the nation: a stable
meaningful-a core of value and a variable periphery.
Meaningful-value is the core - spiritual values and their
priority order, which determine the uniqueness of the
knowledge of the world, the way of life, life practice
and diary ideology of the owner of this mentality.
(hierarchy). [6,170]
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