SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF DEPRESSIVE FEAR OF LONELINESS

Abstract

The article focuses on the actual fear of loneliness, which does not appear in conceptual and categorical form as existential, because there were lonely people who felt a psychological state of loneliness (and concomitant states of sadness, depression, melancholy, despair), isolation (abandoned, exile), but in fact it was not loneliness in the modern sense as the meaning of life. Scientific approaches are identified and the state of fear of loneliness in the socio-cultural context is analyzed; it is substantiated that loneliness is one of the basic human existentials, its ontological basis is the complete or partial alienation of one’s own essence. The article examines the fear of spiritual and mental loneliness as a psychological phenomenon and a subjective feeling of a person associated with the fact that he or she does not experience positive emotions from the contact with other people, or occurs in a certain isolation. A single person does not necessarily have relatives or friends, they usually have different contacts, but they may be formal and do not meet their needs. The fear of loneliness is seen as a subconscious emotion needed to avoid danger. It is represented here as a result of direct somatic irritation, biological reactions inside the human body in response to external irritation (real or imaginary). The fixation of the fact that fear does not depress but on the contrary, helps a person feel human is important in psychological interpretations of the fear of loneliness. And this is only human nature. As a result of studying the motivational significance of the binary opposition of the metaphysical and social modes of fear, it was found that the fear of loneliness is a transcendent phenomenon, existential and a way of understanding the meaning of consciousness. After all, the fear of loneliness is the most capable means of forming some social basis for the explication of the integrity of consciousness, to reveal the immediacy of human self-awareness. This fear realizes the original integrity of consciousness, and vice versa – breaks it down into a huge number of metamorphoses, among which the “split” consciousness acts as a manipulated and catastrophic one.

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