Existential Phenomenological Analysis of a Nonadaptive Activity in a Creative Activity

Student: Voltman Aygul

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This research is devoted to the study of a phenomenon of a non-adaptive activity in creative activity with the help of the four fundamental motivations structure described in existential analysis. The theoretical part of the research is aimed at finding the points of intersection of two historically different traditions of psychology. The empirical part of the study is a qualitative analysis of interviews collected from people engaged in creative activity who talk about their best creation in their opinion. The result of the study is a description of the specifics of the manifestation and implementation of each fundamental motivation in a non-adaptive activity in creativity.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses