METAPHORICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANS OF STABILISING THE PERSONAL IDENTITY OF YOUNG WOMEN

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the psychological features of the personal identity of young women.The author presents her own thoughts on the psychological determinants of the crisis in women caused by age-related changes and the consequences of the military conflict in Ukraine. She focuses on the personal qualities of young women, their needs and intrapersonal conflicts. Art-therapeutic exercises “Goddess”, “Poppy”, “Twin Brother” have been developed, aimed at working with metaphors to stabilise the personal identity of young women.The methodological basis of the study is the provisions of philosophy on the dialectical dependence of human life on the laws of unity and struggle of opposites, the transition of quantitative indicators to qualitative ones, and the negation of negations. At the same time, the basis of the article is the idea of psychology about a human being as the highest value and goal of self-development in the process of one’s own activity, when a woman cognises and transforms the world around her and herself.The works of foreign scientists E. Erikson and C. Jung on personal identity and the archetypal structure of personality were of great importance for our study. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the essence of the concepts of “metaphoricality”, “personal identity of young women” is clarified, the theoretical provisions of the age periodisation of Z. Freud and E. Erikson are further developed, taking into account the main neoplasms and the traumatic impact of war on the development of personal identity of young women.Conclusions. Thus, in working with metaphor, psychological stabilisation occurs, and a woman is filled with meanings, reveals her feminine power, harmonises her body and soul, and acquires congruence as an important feature of self-love.