Abstract: The goal of this article consists in the analysis of Eastern psychosomatic techniques for determining the possibility of their use in modern psychological practices. The growing interest in the Eastern psychosomatic Buddhist and Taoist practices is observed in the humanities; they are actively implemented in correction of psychological problems that arise among the residents of urban agglomerations. The author demonstrates the interaction between the Russian culture and Eastern civilizations, as well as formulates a thesis on the continuity of cultures of the Eurasian region. The examples of interrelation of the methods of Eastern psychosomatic techniques in the correction of psychological problems of modern individual are described. The article provides the results of empirical study to prove the hypothesis of the possible correlation of psychological problems of an individual by Eastern psychosomatic practices. For acquisition of statistically significant data, the author employs psychosemantic technique, and for verification of the statistical hypothesis – χ2 criterion. The sampling consists of practicing psychologists with over 10 years of experience. In the course of the study, the hypothesis has been proven correct. Practicing psychologists do not have sufficient information for implementing Eastern practices in counseling; however, getting familiar with such practices, consider it promising to synthesize Eastern practices in their work, and indicate psychological effectiveness for solution of the problems of modern individual. Integration of the principles and methods of Eastern practices into psychotherapeutic activity would prompt versatile and comprehensive understanding of the existential problems of personality, as well allow using the acquired knowledge in counseling.

Keywords: therapeutic psychology, social psychology, psychosemantic differential, individualism, depersonalization, psychosemantics, psychosomatic techniques, eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism

Abstract: In the present research the motif of the road in ancient egyptian mythology and ritual practice is compared with the ideas and images of the unconscious developed within the framework of the integral personality in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Studying mythological conceptions of the eternal gyre of the Sun God – the supreme Creator – the author finds out that these mythological beliefs were reflected in the architecture of the motif of the road. This mythologeme also occurs in the initiation of the deceased walking along divine ways through the netherworld. Thoth – the God of knowledge and scholarship – was considered to be the guide of the dead. He could manage demons of the other world with the help of magic spells. Following these ways the soul of the deceased was brought to the divine celestial world of the eternal life. The discussed mythological beliefs are also compared with such fundamental concepts of the analytical psychology as libido, the inward man, the archetypes of what Jung has called in German – Selbst (Self), the wise man, etc. The research work is based on the comparative method in terms of scientific synthesis aplied in the area of mythological consciousness and analytical psychology. The main conclusions are the following: The mythological consciousness was based on the similarity between the material-sensual and the spiritual-psychical in the beliefs about the picture of the world and the role of man in it. The motif of the road in the ancient egyptian mythological conceptions was studied in terms of unity between the myth of the Sun God – Creator and initiation in the burial custom. In the course of research the author of the article 'built the bridge' to the philosophical-psychological idea of Carl Gustav Jung concerning the conflict of opposites and elimination of conflicts by means of what he has called Selbst in German – the symbol of uniform integrity. The main contribution to the theme is the detailed comparative historical and psychological analysis of the archetype of the road. It is for the first time in the academic literature of the comparative mythology that the deep-laid origins of the individual's motif of the road are studied on the basis of the analytical psychology founded by Carl Gustav Jung. This work can be applied in the course of lectures and in the practical work in psychotechnics.

Keywords: sun god - creator, initianion, the unconscious, Selbst, the temple-road, libido, soul, spirit, guide, inward man

Abstract: The author of the article discusses the origin of atomistic concepts from the point of view of intercultural studies. The article is devoted to researching the phenomena of Chinese culture, in particular, the Chinese verbal and written languages. The analysis is based on the cognitive approach described in I. Merkulov’s researches. Based on the examples from the Chinese verbal and written languages, the author of the article shows that Chinese people have a singular type of cogitation — mostly spatial-image (‘dextrocerebral’) thinking which is related to archaic cogitation. The author describes structures and types of hieroglyphs and demonstrates the examples of influence of hieroglyph “images’ on cultural occurrences in architecture, education, Internet communication and etc. The author also analyzes typical examples depicting the dependence of use of the words from the nature of percept images denoted by these words. The author also compares these features with the languages of modern primitive populations. Based on the examples from the Chinese language and culture the author makes a conclusion that Chinese people in general have a holistic and concrete world outlook and it is not typical for them to divide something whole into parts. This conclusion correlates with A. I. Kobzeva’s assumption that the idea of atomism was alien to Chinese people who represented the “dextrocerebral” psychological type.

Keywords: atomism, the Chinese language, the Chinese culture, spatial-image thinking, analytical thinking, hieroglyph, phonetics, written language, percept-image, thinking, cogitation.

Abstract: The article studies the problem of interpretation of the Buddhistic conception of ‘non-self’ (anatman) based on the analysis of the 9th part of Abhidharmakosha by Vasubandhu, the philosopher living in the 4th century. The author of the article analyzes whether it is possible or impossible for ‘self’ to exist as the subject of perception, learning and thinking. The author shows that the Buddhistic philosophy suggested a completely new approach to human psyche that views it as the combination of constantly changing and dynamically interacting phenomena (dharmas) and ‘subject-free’ ontology forming the basis. The article also discusses possible approaches to explaining the connection between the Buddhistic psychology with D. Hume’s theories, phenomenology and modern cognitive philosophy (F. Varela, E . T homson, E . Rosh). T he article contains the author’s translations of relevant texts from Sanskrit and Pali (the first translations into Russian). The article will be of interest to researchers in the sphere of cognitive psychology, psychology of perception and knowledge who are interested in the problem of Self and the Subject and in a philosophical dialogue between the West and the East.

Keywords: psychology, subject, personality, individual, consciousness, psyche, Self, non-Self, atman.