Affective Expansion as a Regulator of the Borders of I: from the Adaptation to the Non-Adaptive Activity

Abstract

The possibilities and effectiveness of affective contact of a person with the world are connected with his/her psychological borders. Such as: the subjective symbol of the transition; the scope of potential normative and dysfunctional meanings and possibilities; and the field of non-adaptive activity. The regulatory and adaptive role of the affective system in unstable situations is realized in affective expansion, which determines a person’s contact with the boundaries of one's own Defined Self as "Challenge ↔ Challenge " and his/her desire to risk in their reconstruction. The set of functions of affective expansion makes it a universal regulator of the whole spectrum of personal adaptations with respect to stereotypes and innovations. The formation of the "border experience" and of the dispositions of an individual, reflecting the relationship between its needs and the conditions of their satisfaction at the interface Self and not-Self, is analyzed in the context of normal and disharmonious personogenesis. The following mechanisms of interaction of affective expansion of a person with his/her borders are described: attraction, protection, inhibition, mechanisms of "swing" and turning "-" into "+". Dispositional and situational dominants of these mechanisms in their system interaction are designated as a future investigation of their connection with the nature of affective expansion.

Keywords

• psychological borders
• border motif
• non-adaptive activity
• affective expansion
• expansiveness
• mechanisms of expansion
• dysfunction of the expansion
• non-adaptive styles