Victor ovcharenko

Victor Ovcharenko (b. February 5, 1943) - a Russian philosopher, sociologist, historian and psychologist. PhD., professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1997), academician of the Academy for Humanities Research (1998), academician of the Pedagogical and Social Sciences (2000). Co-editor of journals "The Psychoanalytical Bulletin", "The Bulletin of Psychoanalysis", etc. Forerunner (with V.S.Stepin) of Minsk philosophical school "Humanities Encyclopedia". One of the founders of modern Byelorussian sociology.

Biography

In 1969 he graduated from the historical department of the Byelorussian State University (BSU). After finishing post-graduate study at the chair of philosophy of BSU he wrote doctorial thesis "Critical analysis of the personality theory of Freud's psychoanalytical system" (1973, BSU). From 1972 to 1982 he worked as a lecturer, a senior lecturer, an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the BSU.

In 1982-1983 he was an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lectures of Social Sciences of the BSU. From 1983-1987 he worked as an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lecturers of Social Sciences of Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov.

From 1987 he was an assistant professor and then a professor (1995) of the chair of philosophy at Moscow State Linguistic University. His thesis for degree of doctor was "Genesis, Foundations, Forms and Tendencies of Sociological Psychologism Development as a Phenomenon of Social Thought" (1995, MSU).

Scientific achievements

V.Ovcharenko has proved that the creation of Western and Eastern versions of conceptual humanism were one of the first socially significant results of the systematic philosophical activity in the Ancient world. In 1990 he elaborated the foundations of the sociological psychologism - the concept that regards action and interaction of social, group and individual psychical factors as a premise of research and explanation of social phenomena and processes.

He has introduced scientific and philosophical categories of "conceptual problematic complex", "conceptual problematic associations", "latent and contact world history", "dispersed rational surroundings", "dispersed psychoanalytical surroundings", etc.

Ovcharenko has published about 1000 articles in different countries, among them there are more than 400 biographies of philosophers, sociologists, psychologist and psychoanalysts. He has worked out the first division into periods of the history of the Russian psychoanalysis, and has carried out research of series paradigms and trends of classical and modern social thought.

Main works

• "Psychoanalytical Glossary" (1994. It was the first Russian edition of a dictionary and reference book on psychoanalysis.)
• "Sociological Psychologism. Critical Analysis" (1990, with A.A.Gritsanov)
• "The Man and Alienation" (1991, with A.A.Gritsanov)
• "The History of Sociology" (1993, 1997, co-author)
• "Philosophical and Social Anthropology" (1997, co-author)
• "Psychoanalytical Literature in Russia" (1998, with V.M.Leibin)
• "Psychoanalysis. Popular Encyclopedia" (1998, co-author)
• "Anthology of Russian Psychoanalysis" (1999, in two volumes, with V.M.Leibin)
• "The Newest Philosophical Dictionary" (1999, 2001 co-author)
• "Modern Western Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Russian Psychoanalysts" (2000)
• "Classical and Modern Psychoanalysis" (2000)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Postmodernism. Encyclopedia" (2001, co-author)
• "History of Philosophy Encyclopedia" (2002, co-author)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy of the XX Century" (2002, co-author)
• "The English-Russian Psychoanalytical Dictionary" (2003, in two volumes)
• "Summa Psychoanalitica" (2006, in nineteen volumes)

References

• A.I.Melua. "The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Encyclopedia" (M.-St.P., 1998)
• P.V.Alekseyev. "Philosophers of Russia of the XIX-XX centuries. Biographies, Ideas, Works" (M. 1999)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy" (M.-Minsk, 2001)
• P.S.Gurevich. "Popular Psychological Dictionary" (M., 2001)
• "The History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia" (Minsk, 2002)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy of the XX Century" (Minsk, 2002)

Links

• Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Kaleidoscope