Published: 2018-09-281

The Concept of National Character and the Problem of Humanity (According to Kazimierz Dąbrowski's Theory)

Tadeusz Kobierzycki
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.1096

Abstract

The author introduces Hazimierz Dąbrowski’s views on the subject of national character as a category describing the structure and character traits of individual and collective identity. The Polish psychiatrist and existential psychotherapist H. Dąbrowski (1902–1980) distinguishes positive and negative traits of the „national character” of Poles, based on a typology of characters of E. Kretschmer and his own theory of psychical over-excitability types. The author verifies the introduced psychological arguments with the concept of „humanity”, finding that the concept of „national character” can be included into the complex of the ego de- fence mechanisms, in the way it is understood by contemporary psychoanalysis.

Keywords:

national character, humanity, social identity, fence mechanism ego, romanticism and contemporary, heory of psychical over-excitability types of H. Dąbrowski

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Kobierzycki, T. (2018). The Concept of National Character and the Problem of Humanity (According to Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s Theory). Humanities and Natural Sciences, (14), 29–50. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.1096

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