Essential Foundations of Human Subjectivity: from Illusion to Reality

The philosophical and anthropological analysis of the essential foundations of human subjectivity, under the pressure of a large-scale change in value orientations caused by the mental specificity of the multicultural way of life of the “Others,” is being updated. The purpose of the study is to understand the key trends in the sociocultural transformation of the semantic basis of human subjectivity. The modern realities of a new format of human development are considered, combining the interaction of physical and virtual realities, allowing the transformation of human subjectivity. It is noted that the formation of subjectivity means a movement into the beyond. Going beyond the limits of subjectivity is a complex mechanism of the abstract level of self-identification of the subject. A substitution of the essential meanings of the sociocultural basis of society, built on irrational logic, has been revealed, which provokes the mental disorientation of society as a whole. The author touches upon the phenomenon of illusion, connecting elements of reality and the fictional world of the “I”, qualitatively changing public consciousness. A conclusion is made about the significance of illusions and their deceptiveness in the subject’s perception, and the ambiguity of the impact of illusions on human thinking is also noted. The driving force behind the development of illusions is the discrepancy between the real and the ideal, between the macroworld and the microworld of the individual. Illusions act as an impulse for sociocultural transformations and form the content of human subjectivity. An assumption is made about the constant dynamics of the foundations of subjectivity, which allows us to permanently problematize the question of the relationship between “I” and “Other”.