A Human Through the Prism of Jointness. The Possibility of a General Psychology

<p>The paper raises the question of the possibility of creating a general psychological field of research. The condition for the beginning of such research is a sufficiently complete general model of psychological phe&shy;nomena. The assumption is made that the work of identifying suitable psychological universals has already been done as a part of cultural-historical psychology. We summarised the investigations, starting with L.S. Vygotsky&rsquo;s idea of a psychological &ldquo;unit&rdquo;. With the help of some modern theories, the assumption is substantiated that joint meaning field is the essence of the human in man. The history of the &ldquo;integral unit of the human lifeworld&rdquo; construction in the F.E. Vasilyuk&rsquo;s school and its transformation into a scheme of jointness is described. By analysing F.E. Vasilyuk's notion of &ldquo;experiencing&rdquo;, the activity-dialogical model of jointness is extrapolated and filled with &ldquo;meaning&rdquo;. This model is proposed as a suitable tool for generalis&shy;ing psychological knowledge. An assumption is made about resonance as a fundamental mechanism of joint&shy;ness formation. In this paper we describe the properties of the prism of jointness and question its sufficiency for the beginning of general psychological research.</p>