SAPOGOVA E. E.
DOI: 10.32691/2410-0935-2019-14-97-118
Information about author:
Elena E. Sapogova , Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), professor, Department of Education Psychology, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia.
E-mail: esapogova [at] yandex.ru (esapogova[at]yandex[dot]ru)
Abstract. In the framework of the existential-narrative approach developed by the author, the thesis about the symbolic aspects of autobiographical texts as a way to navigate the family’s microcultural memory and a tool for constructing the subject’s subculture and his personal thesaurus is substantiated. A number of author’s conclusions have been formulated and argued in this article: 1) food semantics is a way of marking and preserving significant fragments of an individual biography, the meanings of some life events at different stages of personal development; 2) food preferences mentioned in personal stories fix the usual way of life, the habitus of the subject; 3) food metaphors are a particular format of maintaining a symbolic connection with the family microhistory and the subject’s gender in regularly reproduced rituals and imitable traditions; 4) food hermeneutics is a part of the personal microcultural semantics and personal subculture; 5) the first acquaintance with different types of food and the last nutritional desires expressed by relatives carry an existential-symbolic function for the subject; 6) food associations are a kind of cognitive-emotional triggers that are involved in the functioning of psychological mechanisms of individuation and individualization of the life path.
Keywords: personality, autobiography, family, kin, subject subculture, microcultural memory, food, foodstuff, food semantics, food metaphors.
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