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Afanasenko, Ya. A.
Ambivalence of Guilt: Anthropological Aspect
// Philosophy and Culture.
2013. № 9.
P. 1258-1269.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63153
Afanasenko, Ya. A. Ambivalence of Guilt: Anthropological Aspect
Abstract:
The object of our research is a personal guilt as a cultural phenomenon. The subject of our
research is the ambivalence of guilt. The purpose of the research is to determine what opposite values
are covered by the concept of guilt and how these opposite values are determined by the cultural environment.
Theoretical grounds of the research include symbolic interpretation of culture in Ernst Cassirer’s
writings, Jung’s and Horney’s psychoanalysis and Alexander Dugin’s historical sintagma. For
us guilt is the problem of self-understanding, existential self-identity and therefore resolution of guilt
is associated with both personal responsibility and punishment. The authors of the article offer their
own definitions of guilt and ambivalence where guilt is, in the first place, a life-meaning phenomenon
or existential appealing to one’s true existence and ambivalence is the category inscribing the essence
of human existence in culture, particularly, in Art Nouveau. From the existential point of view, the
feeling of guilt means self-accusation, self-condemnation and tender conscience. The core of this concept
is placing responsibility for one’s wrong doings on ourselves instead of self-justifying. Since this
meaning of guilt is actualized only in the symbolic environment, we can talk here about a special role
of religion, philosophy and psychoanalysis in modern culture: they allow us to retain connection with
our transcendence, questioning about the meaning of life, starvation for high moral principles, on one
hand, and constructive experience of our ‘shaded area’, on the other hand. Contrary to the existential
guilt, there is also a neurotic guilt. The main feature of such guilt is its projective nature, i.e. placing
responsibility for one’s wrong doings on others. Neurotic guilt is typical for a person who doesn’t have
any symbolic experience of culture. Today’s cultural situation disposes to semiotic interpretation of
culture and acculturation at the level of symbols, therefore neurotic guilt is becoming a dominating
discourse. This is the main conclusion made by the author of the article.
Keywords:
cultural science, guilt, ambivalence, punishment, freedom, culture, psychoanalysis, symbol, sign.
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