A person seeks to belong to any society, this need is inherent in him by nature. Even people protesting against certain foundations of society unite in informal companies and movements. However, having felt like a part of a group, a person tries to isolate himself in it, to show his own individuality.
Instructions
Step 1
A. Maslow was engaged in the study of personality aspirations, he created a whole concept about the pyramid of human needs, in which the desire to emphasize his own individuality was a step towards the main goal - self-actualization. Following this point of view, the desire to be different, not to be, like everything, is dictated by a person's need for self-realization.
Step 2
LS Vygotsky, a talented Soviet psychologist, studying the formation of personality, described 2 stages of self-awareness. The first occurs around the age of three and is characterized by the feeling of being a separate organism, no longer associated with the mother. The child discovers himself as the source of his own will. During this period, parents unexpectedly note the special obstinacy and stubbornness of the baby.
Step 3
The second stage of psychological self-awareness occurs in adolescence, when the child is finally psychologically separated from the family and shows individuality. This is a natural, irreversible and beneficial process for the formation of personality. During it, the need to be different, to stand out from others, arises. Thus, the desire for individuality, according to Vygotsky, is explained by human development.
Step 4
The "father" of psychology, the Austrian scientist Z. Freud, had his own opinion regarding the desire of people to differ from those around them. The basis of his theory lies in the division of the human psyche into 3 parts:
- subconsciousness (called it "id") - desires and needs;
- consciousness ("ego") - a conscious part of the psyche;
- superconsciousness ("superego") - social prohibitions and norms of behavior that take the form of conscience in the consciousness.
Step 5
Freud explained the desire to stand out by the sublimation of the subconscious's desire for destruction. That is, the desire to destroy inherent in the depths of the id (social foundations, the authority of parents, one's own body), encountering the prohibitions of the superego, which does not allow openly manifest its aggressiveness, with the help of the ego (consciousness), striving to find a balance between desires and possibilities, is replaced by a need to show their own "dissimilarity" to others.
Step 6
No matter how scientists try to explain the need to be different from others, it allows all people to be individual and independent in their actions, appearance, and behavior. She makes life diverse, filled with different aspects and events. Satisfying such a desire in oneself, a person becomes happier, reaching new heights in self-development, creating harmony with himself, gaining invaluable life experience.
