Realization of Personality’s Self-Knowledge Cultural Potentials as a Resource of Solitude Productiveness

The study explores the relationship of self-knowledge of a modern person who realizes cultural potentials with productive solitude and creativity. The study is carried out in a personalological format and is of a quantitative and qualitative nature. From the great ego-documents (autobiographies and confessions) created in European culture from Antiquity to the 20th century, 8 reflexive dominants are hermeneutically identified: My ideals; Contradictions in me and my life; My relationships with other people; My creation: what I create; My abilities and achievements; Organization and dynamics of my life meanings; The changes of my I in the history of my life; My body . In a sample of 81 respondents (all study or work in a creative field involving the creation of works of art), it was proved that in the individual self-knowledge of a modern creative person there are all 8 reflective dominants identified hermeneutically from outstanding European ego-documents. Positive correlations of self-knowledge that realizes cultural potentials with the productivity of the solitude of respondents and negative correlations with their dependence on loneliness were obtained. It is proved that a modern creative person who realizes the cultural potentials of self-knowledge is able to spend time productively alone with himself. Thus, we can talk about the active interest of the modern creative person in devoting a separate part of his life time and space to contact with himself: to improve his ability to be in society, to enjoy the solitude situation, using it productively, to pay attention to deep self-understanding and self-exploration based on the best cultural patterns of self-knowledge. Based on the results of the study, practical recommendations on the application of the results in psychological counselling are proposed, and possible measures to optimize the curricula of creative universities and colleges are described.