Item #311 Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]. Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky.
Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]
Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]
Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]
Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]

Kniga Zhizni: psikhologicheskaia khristomatiia dla shkoly i zhizni [The Book of Life: psychological chrestomathy for school and life]

Southbury, CT: Alatas, 1931. Zamotin, I. F. (cover design). First edition. Publisher's wrappers. Item #311

Southbury, CT: Alatas, [1931]; 685 pages: illustrations; 27 x 18 cm; text in Russian; Cover design by I. F. Zamotin; Inscribed by the previous owner.

The author devoted this work to the disclosure of personality psychology, considering the problems of the mind, cognition, figurative perception, fantasy, the discipline of thinking, and the manifestation of creativity in various genres of folk and authors' literature. In addition, Sikorsky analyzes the manifestations of higher nervous activity, such as feelings (including the nature of fear, anger, longing, love, aesthetic, intellectual, and moral feelings) and will (self-control, attention, and action). The author draws examples of subtle psychologism from the best examples of Russian literature and historical prose. Sikorsky illustrates regularities in the development of personality and its properties and The complex correlations of biology and psychology, painful forms in the development of the personality, which introduce severe drama into a person's life, are considered. They understand the example of the character of Anna Karenina. The author considers personality psychology as a battlefield between good and evil.

The last section of the reader is devoted to the latest discoveries and inventions and the development of sciences: aviation, anthropology, astronomy, bacteriology, and zoopsychology. Sikorsky shows how to exercise mental skills, train memory, and cultivate understanding. The book contains 365 literary passages and literary-psychological texts. The author also touches upon the art of oratory.

Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky (1842 - 1919) - Russian psychiatrist, publicist, professor at Kyiv University of St. Vladimir, and an honorary member of the Kyiv Theological Academy. Founder of the journal "Issues of Neuropsychic Medicine and Psychology." Sikorsky is considered one of the largest ideologists of Russian nationalism, which he approached from a biological point of view. He is the father of the outstanding Russian and American aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky who built the first in the world multi-engine aircraft, "Russian Knight."

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