Deformations of the Authentic “Self” as a Factor in the Production of Internal Obstacles in Implementation of the Function of Creative Self-expression

Abstract

In this article, the author analyzes the influence of authentic
“Self” destruction mechanisms on purging internal barriers
on gifted individual’s creative potential realization. The starting point of analysis is the author’s idea that defining personal
skills for successful creative self-realization is person’s ability
to perceive authentically, to experience and express oneself.
The essence of authentic perception turns out in the subjective experience of personal caused reflection of events. Obtaining, accumulation and transformation of such experience
in the process of individual’s existence causes the appearance
and gradual development of the way of perception inherent
only to that individual. The identification of oneself with this
way of perception creates the core of individual style, his or
her psychological reflection of the word and himself /herself
in this world. Unrepeatable, inherent only personally to the
individual colored sensory sensitivity indicates its authenticity
and in such quality is the base of unique way of experiencing
and self-expression. Combined with expressive motivational,
energetically and instrumentally saturated creative abilities,
original capacities of perception, experiencing and self-expression create the construct of active and creative giftedness.
Much attention of the content of the article is given to investigation of realities of the process of personal creative skills’
formation. The author investigates the influence of the circumstance that for achieving the optimal level of skills’ development could be prevented by specific internal and external facts,
which go with the process of giftedness’ development. Empirically they are experienced by gifted individual as conditions,
difficulties and barriers that slow down or overlap the dynamic of the self-expression process or cause the feeling of subjective lack of necessary resources and means. The biggest negative influence on development and detection of creative skills
cause internal obstacles, through which a huge frustrating
power has mechanisms of personal braking and oppression.
Their resistant influence through the time on development the dynamic of individual’s giftedness potential causes
the appearance of phenomenon called “Oppressed Self” that
starts to operate as a powerful and constantly active mechanism of production of internal barriers in the processes of
synthesis and development of individual’s abilities. With the
emergence of “Oppressed self” happens the functional direction reverse of abilities system work: instead of creation
of free steam to make something new, creative mechanisms
start to provide internal barriers, particularly psychological
barriers which suppress revitalization process and expression and substantive use of abilities. The following resilience
of such internal state escalates the processes of oppression
and causes “irradiation” of inhibition and its neuropsychological consolidation in its capacity as cognitive correlates, affective and behavioral strategies of self-expression.