The Phenomenology of Cult. Psycoanalitical Approach

Student: Bukalo Elena

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The cult is no longer confined to religion only. Now, the cult acquired a general cultural status. Therefore, that is a reason to consider it`s phenomenology. The purpose is to research the phenomenology of the Cult, by means of psychoanalytic approach, and identification of component factors, which (with the greatest probability) helps to object get the «Cult status». This research contains: specificity of the cult-mechanism; the modern view on cult; cult in the arts and media, phenomenology of cult. Results: there is a number of fundamental principles and features (in the arts and media) , which most likely allows to object to get the status of «cult».

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