Self-preservation and self-change: framing of Self- in the conditions of its forced disorganization

The modern global processes of geopolitical and economic repartition of the world determine the relevance of the analysis of framing by a subject of Self- in the states of self-organization and self-disorganization of its system. The paper considers the consequences of these “turbulent” processes for framing the Self-, when in the changed conditions and situations of uncertainty, the previous frames that determined the procedures of stereotypical behavior became ineffective. During the research, using the descriptive and diachronic methods, the author summarized the results of the analysis of the phenomenology of framing the Self- in its historical and axiomatic perspectives. The syntagmatic and paradigmatic framing levels and their correlations with different life styles, social adaptation and self-realization scenarios, motives, and self-determination of a subject are analyzed and interpreted. The system organization of framing the Self- is represented by four subsystems (cognitive, motivational, activity-based, and regulatory) differing in the content of hyperframes, subframes, and the results of framing. The paper shows the main differences between self-organization and disorganization of framing: the dominant of the paradigmatic or syntagmatic level, systemacity –the amorphy of frames and their adaptive plasticity – rigidity. The author systematized the factors of dominance in a subject of one or another framing level: the nature of self-identification and self-determination, the significance of perceptual-cognitive-affective Self- formations, the degree of rigidity of schemes and automatism of actualization of stereotypical scenarios, the modality of self-determination. As a way out of the state of forced Self- framing disorganization, the author highlights the self-preservation and self-change variants and determines the predictors of the choice of each option. The main conclusions are, firstly, the regularity of the forced disorganization of Self- and its framing in a contemporary, his/her need to preserve Self-, and, secondly, the conditionality of the choice of self-preservation or self-change by the history of his/her conceptual framework of Self-.