SELF-DISAGREEMENT AS FEATURE OF ADULTHOOD. ANDRAGOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF KAZIMIERZ DABROWSKI'S THEORY OF POSITIVE DISINTEGRATION (Niezgoda na siebie jako cecha doroslosci...odczytanie koncepcji dezintegracji pozytywnej Kazimierza Dabrowskiego)

• Authors: Sokolowicz Natalia
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The principal aim of the paper is to analyze one of the crucial notions for andragogy, namely adulthood. Taking as a point of departure the anthropological conception of adulthood by Ryszard Urbanski-Korz, which places emphasis on not submitting to social conventions, the authoress of the paper enquires about the following: what does it mean that an adult disagrees with himself, social expectations and the role assigned by society; and does it all result in self-disagreement? In seeking an answer, she refers to the conception of positive disintegration by Kazimierz Dabrowski, and analyzes the psychological mechanisms responsible for passing through successive stages of development. The most important mechanisms in Dabrowski's conception are the ones responsible for conflicts, both inner and interpersonal, and for loosening the structure of psyche. Next, the authoress refers to the moment in psychological development, conspicuously omitted by Dabrowski, when a human being is, for some reason, not able to reach the last stage of development - namely the stage of reintegration. The authoress discusses threats and risks in development of those who endlessly express their disagreement with themselves. In order to illustrate the problem, she presents literary and philosophical interpretations of the following characters: Antigone (Magdalena Sroda), Rahel Varnhagen (Hannah Arendt), and one of the characters from the novel by Sandor Marai 'The Miracle Blood of Saint Januarius'.

Keywords

EN

ADULTHOOD; DEVELOPMENT; DISAGREEMENT

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Zielona Góra University Press
• Journal: Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 55-68
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sokolowicz Natalia

• Natalia Sokolowicz, Akademia Pomorska w Slupsku, Instytut Pedagogiki, ul. Arciszewskiego 22a, 76-200 Slupsk, Poland

References

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• Dąbrowski K., Dezintegracja pozytywna, Warszawa 1979.
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• Marai S., Krew świętego Januarego, Warszawa 2006.
• Środa M., Indywidualizm i jego krytycy. Współczesne spory między liberałami, komunitarianami i feministkami na temat podmiotu, wspólnoty i płci, Warszawa 2003.
• Urbański-Korż R., Dorosłość jako podstawowe pojęcie andragogiki, [w:] Oświata dorosłych, red. E. Solarczyk-Ambrozik, K. Przyszczypkowski, Poznań-Toruń 1999.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA065317