Victor Ovcharenko

Victor Ovcharenko (February 5, 1943 – May 5, 2009) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, historian and psychologist. PhD., professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1997), academician of the Academy for Humanities Research (1998), academician of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences (2000). Co-editor of the journals "The Psychoanalytical Bulletin", "The Bulletin of Psychoanalysis", etc. Forerunner (with V.S. Stepin) of Minsk philosophical school "Humanities Encyclopedia". He is considered one of the founders of modern Belarusian sociology.

Biography

In 1969 he graduated from the historical department of the Belarusian State University (BSU). After finishing post-graduate study at the chair of philosophy of BSU he wrote doctorial thesis "Critical analysis of the personality theory of Freud's psychoanalytical system" (1973, BSU). From 1972 to 1982 he worked as a lecturer, a senior lecturer, an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the BSU.

In 1982-1983 he was an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lectures of Social Sciences of the BSU. From 1983-1987 he worked as an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lecturers of Social Sciences of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

From 1987 he was an assistant professor and then a professor (1995) of the chair of philosophy at Moscow State Linguistic University. His thesis for degree of doctor was "Genesis, Foundations, Forms and Tendencies of Sociological Psychologism Development as a Phenomenon of Social Thought" (1995, MSU).

Scientific achievements

Main scientific achievements of V.Ocharenko are connected with sociological psychologism, problems of personality and interpersonal relations, contents and models of mind; history, theory and methodology of psychoanalysis and post-freudism; human dimensions of world history, alienation and humanism; history of philosophy, sociology and psychology; metaphilosophy and methods of teaching philosophy; etc.

He proved that the creation of Western and Eastern versions of conceptual humanism were one of the first socially significant results of the systematic philosophical activity in the Ancient world.

He carried out research of series paradigms and trends of classical and modern social thought. In 1990 he elaborated the foundations of the sociological psychologism — "concept that regards action and interaction of social, group and individual psychical factors as a premise of research and explanation of social phenomena and processes" .

In 1993 V.Ovcharenko initiated the campaign to return in Russia the originals and copies of the documents and materials on the history of the Russian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical movement from foreign archives and collections.

In 1994 he published "Psychoanalytical Glossary" — the first Russian language edition of a dictionary and reference book on psychoanalysis that presented systematized data on the history of psychoanalysis, its ideas and leaders, terminology, documental basis, classical and modern schools and theories. He has marked out three principal stages in the development of classical psychoanalysis: 1) Clinical (1896—1905), 2) Psychological (1905—1913) and 3) Metaphysical (1913—1939).

In 1996 V.Ovcharenko worked out the first division into periods of the history of the Russian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical movement. Together with Russian psychoanalyst V.Leibin, he published "The Anthology of Russian Psychoanalysis" (in two volumes) that was the first to give the integral picture of a century existence and development of psychoanalytical ideas in Russia.

V.Ovcharenko introduced scientific and philosophical categories of "sociological psychologism", "conceptual problematic complex", "conceptual problematic associations", "latent and contact world history", "dispersed rational sphere", "dispersed psychoanalytical sphere", "multibasisness of a person", etc. He published about 1500 articles in different countries, among them there are more than 700 biographies of philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, and a series of articles in Russian and foreign journals, encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Main works

• "Psychoanalytical Glossary" (1994)
• "Sociological Psychologism. Critical Analysis" (1990, with A.A. Gritsanov)
• "The Man and Alienation" (1991, with A.A. Gritsanov)
• "The History of Sociology" (1993, 1997, co-author)
• "Philosophical and Social Anthropology" (1997, co-author)
• "Psychoanalytical Literature in Russia" (1998, with V.M. Leibin)
• "Psychoanalysis. Popular Encyclopedia" (1998, co-author)
• "The Anthology of Russian Psychoanalysis" (1999, in two volumes, with V.M. Leibin)
• "The Newest Philosophical Dictionary" (1999, 2001, co-author)
• "Modern Western Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Russian Psychoanalysts" (2000)
• "Classical and Modern Psychoanalysis" (2000)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Postmodernism. Encyclopedia" (2001, co-author)
• "The History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia" (2002, co-author)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy of the XX Century" (2002, co-author)
• "The English-Russian Psychoanalytical Dictionary" (2003, in two volumes)
• "The Newest Philosophical Dictionary" (2003, co-author)
• "Sociology. Encyclopedia" (2003, co-author)
• "The History of Psychology" (2005, co-author)
• "Summa Psychoanalitica" (2006, in nineteen volumes)
• "Clinical Psychology. Dictionary" (2007, co-author)
• "The Bolshevist Philosophy" (2008, in three volumes)
• "Psychoanalysis. The Newest Encyclopedia" (2009, editor-in-chief)

Selected articles

• Ovcharenko V.I. The Destiny of Sabina Spielrein
• Ovcharenko V.I. Under the Badge of Destruction
• Ovcharenko V.I. The History of the Russian Psychoanalysis and Problems of Its Periodization
• Ovcharenko V.I. Psychoanalytical Anthropology
• Ovcharenko V.I. Realization of the Unconscious
• Ovcharenko V.I. Status and Authenticity of Psychoanalysis
• Ovcharenko V.I. Intentions and Prospect of the Russian Psychoanalysis

References

• Faces of Russia. Russian Intellectual Elite
• Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Who Is Who In Russian Psychology
• Belarusian sociologists
• Biography.Ru. Biographic Encyclopedia
• The World of Dictionaries. Dictionary of Philosophy
• The History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia
• Sociology. Encyclopedia
• Psychology In Faces

External links

• Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Kaleidoscope