Reconstruction of psychohistorical portrait of Kondratenko N.I. in the context of historical psychology

Gusev Konstantin Dmitrievich

In this article attempts are made to reconstruct the psychohistorical portrait of Kondratenko N.I., the Kuban's regional leader in 1997-2001, which included a wide range of personal qualities of the human individual. The methodological basis of the research is an interdisciplinary approach – the shuttle use of different psychological ideas and concepts from a historical retrospective of personality research. Based on the memoirs of contemporaries and personal texts of Kondratenko N.I., the main character traits of the politician are distinguished, and their psychohistorical analysis is made. In the context of the classical theory of Hippocrates and C.Galen, Kondratenko's temperament is attributed as «mixed» - between choleric and sanguine; according to Jung's classification, it is defined as «extroverted»; according to Kretschmer's approach, it is characterized as a «hypomanic type of cycloid temperament». Based on Erickson's theory, it is concluded that Kondratenko N.I. had a partial «identity crisis» in the early 1990s: with the retention of the individual's basic psychological traits and a significantly reconsidered ideological belief. It is emphasized that the data obtained enable to overcome the level of a single study of Kondratenko's personality and move on to the stage of a special one – the study of his social and political activity.

Keywords:historical psychology, psychohistory, Kondratenko N.I., temperaments, identity crisis, E. Kretschmer, C.G. Jung, E. Erikson.