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Abstract: The author of the article is giving an unusual classification of little groups according to the type of relationship ongoing inside the group. There are 5 types of interpersonal relationships: filiation (based on the common origin), neighborhood (based on the common place of living), love (based on shared feelings), cooperation (based on shared activity) and friendship (based on shared communication). The author is also analyzing how development of a relationship and social creativity are related. A relationship can possibly develop only if it is based on one dominant, in a word, on what is being shared. All the other similarities simply derive from the main dominant. However, social creativity builds little groups even when there are no relationships already existing there. It just creates new ones.

Abstract: Politics cannot do without advertising. Even more than that, its efficiency is directly dependent on political technologies. It is especially seen in the sphere of political marketing and political populism. Political marking is an attempt to apply marketing practices to the political market. Scientists mostly criticize the word “political market” being used in this context. Unlike at the goods and services markets, there are no buyers/consumers/users in politics and especially in political vote and elections.

Abstract: The article discusses fears, these beasts of the human interior which sometimes hide in our unconscious from the light of conscious but escape and make us commit thoughtless, ineffective or even self-harming actions, - anything which would help us to avoid a new encounter with them. Fear is usually a reaction to an objective situation when a man has to either flee or attack. But in the modern world fears are more often triggered by the “game of the thought” when an idea or an image goes through your mind – and starts a full fear reaction. Even if the reality does not give actual grounds for such a reaction, it does not relieve us from experiencing difficult and unpleasant emotions.

Abstract: Based on our personal experience of psychotherapy, nowadays many men come to a psychologist with all kinds of problems (symptoms of obsessive neurosis, alcohol addiction, difficulties in learning new things, challenges in career and life). However, in a short while we always encounter the same existential problem evolving around male sexual identity.

Abstract: Everyone in his life sometimes encounters events which may seem absolutely incredible from the common point of view. Examples include strange coincidences between our thoughts, dreams and actual events; facts of clairvoyance and telepathy; cycle of events which are not connected by any cause but obsessively demonstrate us some idea or symbol. Sometimes such events “pile up” and we unwittingly start to think there must be some meaning to all these “disconnected” episodes. We do not understand and cannot explain all these coincidences seeming to cancel the laws of nature and the theories of probability for a while. The only thing we do know is that these events make an unforgettable impression on us, remaining in our memory forever and demanding at least some explanation.

Abstract: System approach is a methodological branch of science and social practice assuming objects to be researched as elements of a system. System approach is mostly oriented at finding relations between elements and maintaining ways of describing their behavior with the help of metapatterns (patters describing the nature of these relations instead of describing just separate elements).

Abstract: Long ago Europe “gifted” the world with the two types of education and, at the same time, two ways of receiving knowledge. One of them involved exchanging information through direct communication by using words. The other assumed that work with written texts was the main condition for getting knowledge. The latter actually appears more effective when it comes to accumulating and transmitting direct knowledge as well as transferring information collected by the preceding generations.

Abstract: The main point is that the nature of the music in which, for the first time in history, melody has become the “medium of expression”, is still rather mysterious. The main question remains unanswered: what makes the melody so powerful and understandable for us? Would it be possible to find the irresistible proof a simple shepherd’s song being more preferable than an opus composed by the random quantity generator or in any other “technical” way?

Abstract: The concept of simulacrum (derived from a Lain word simulacrum meaning image, resemblance, vision) is now considered to be of the “olden times”. It goes back to the ancient world at the very least. Simulacrum is an ideal model which becomes overgrown with all kinds of imitations. Sometimes the imitation resembles the original but more often it is no more similar and from that moment on we have to compare the model and a new item.

Abstract: Psychologists and psychiatrists have long been interested in cultural practices. Expansion of psychological interpretation into literature and art has already become a branch of psy disciplines even though it is still being criticized (which is going to be discussed in the article below).

Abstract: The patient Y. whose diary is published here came to an analytical psychologist because of her phobias. Y. rarely used the subway or a suburban train because it caused her to experience a whiplash of fear. In the course of psychoanalytical sessions other problems bothering Y. came to surface. The readers should feel free to think about this case and to send us their questions. We will publish the interpretation of her diary in the next issues of the magazine.