Fusu L.I. —
Liminality in Russian Folklore
// Culture and Art. – 2019. – ¹ 9.
– P. 22 - 27.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2019.9.30492
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/camag/article_30492.html
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Abstract: The subject of the research is liminality in Russian folklore. In his article Fusu aanlyzes liminality as a typical feature of Russian folk culture caused by its adherence to pluralism and immensity. This specific feature of mentality is expressed in folklore as the core of etnic mind and national spirit. Fusu analyzes chronotopes, characters and narrative features of Russian fairy tales in which liminal locations and liminal characters are a frequent case. Fusu discusses how initiation rituals that imply liminality and transfer are expressed in fairy tales. To write this article, the author has used the historical-culturological, structural and comparative approaches. The research methodology also includes psychoanalysis that allows to interpret liminality as a longtime immersion into the unconscious and functioning of psyche at the borderline level. The author's special contribution to the topic is the anlaysis of how liminailty is expressed in Russian folklore based on the example of fairy tales and the author's conclusion that as the core of national everyday consciousness, folklore reflects boundedness typical for the world view and attitude of Russian ethnos. Liminal spaces and liminal characters in folklore tales reflect inherency of liminality from life and personality development.
Fusu L.I. —
Liminal state of society during the globalization period and the ways of its overcoming
// Philosophy and Culture. – 2019. – ¹ 5.
– P. 46 - 52.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2019.5.29808
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fkmag/article_29808.html
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Abstract: The subject of this research is the liminality of society as a result of influence of globalizational transformations. The article analyzes the transformations of social consciousness in the era of universal building of information society and digital revolution. Such changes in the spiritual life are reduced to the concept of liminality, in other words, marginality between the entirely human and machine-like state. The study demonstrates the possible ways of overcoming the liminal state, associated with weakening of the impact of mass culture through introduction to the traditional folk forms of spiritual life, as well as production of mid-culture. The philosophical-anthropological method along with the approaches of existentialism, Freud-Marxism, and cognitivism were used in the course of research. The author’s special contribution into the study of the topic of social liminality lies in the analysis of its correlation with globalization, as well as in the formulated conclusions that namely globalization and the related trends of informatization, digitalization, computerization, and automation lead to the liminal state of society. A thesis is proposed on the mass consciousness as the emanation of liminality.