Sublimation of identity in the context of psychoanalytic theory of personality

The article discusses the phenomenon of personal identity from the point of view of its reflection in the fundamental concept of describing intra-subjective individuality, namely, in the psychoanalytic theory of personality, the degree of development of which today is the link between practices in the field of psychoresearch and philosophical research on subjective self-perception and self-determination. The author of the article describes the chronological transformation of ideas about the phenomenon of personal identity in accordance with the development of psychoanalytic theory, which is currently a very pressing issue, because the instability of modern culture encourages scientific research in terms of subjective self-determination to be reinforced by near-philosophical knowledge systems – fundamental cultural studies, theoretical sociology, socio-cultural anthropology, general and cognitive psychology and, of course, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic practice in one or another of their interpretations. The purpose of this article is to trace the theoretical transformations in the ideas about the phenomenon of personal identity from the point of view of its explication in the psychoanalytic theory of personality. The formulated goal predetermined the research methods, among which are the method of theoretical reconstruction, the result of which is a retrospective reproduction of the logic of psychoanalytic research in the field of self-determination of the subject, and the method of system analysis, which allows for a comprehensive and complex consideration of the phenomenon of personal identity in its psychoanalytic context. The presented work focuses on such psychoanalytic concepts as Sigmund Freud's triune psychic system, which divides the personality into three key components: the Id, the Ego, and the Superego; Carl Gustav Jung's collective unconscious and archetypal construct, which suggest that the subject has universal images and motives that influence the individual perception of identity; Nikolai A. Berdyaev's creative acts, which are the most important manifestation of individuality and open new horizons for understanding identity, emphasizing the importance of subjective experience and inner freedom; Jacques Lacan's mirror stage, which illustrates how subjective interaction with the Other shapes the idea of oneself; Andre Green's dead mother, which symbolizes a radical change in the perception of identity on a deep emotional level. It is proved that the crisis of personal identification of the subject has a validity and consistent logic of its existence in the next to modernist ideas about subjectivity – postmodern culture and postmodern philosophy.