Self-objectification of a person in the world is countered by the reality deobjectification according to Karl Marx. On the one hand, the product of such deobjectification is our own Ego, which contains various fragments of training and life experience in an ideal form. On the other hand, if we assume we aren’t robots, but acting individuals and objectify ourselves to reach a goal – in other words, we’ve motives of such activities, then the end of this deobjectification shall be a result. This is something that is going to bring some pleasure, or, using everyday language, be welcomed by all the subsystems of our minds. First of all, even if we confine a human to the narrative cogito, he or she continues to be a unique individual. The population of a country is taught and brought up according to some conventional established rules. However, for example, we can’t find two absolutely identical people among the 10 million Belarusians. It means one more important thing. Even totalitarian societies that meant to make every member of itself parts of an entire mechanism usually failed. The social system of European or American types actually have a paradoxical approach to a person’s social functioning. The very socialization programs instill in human minds the idea of their independence from the society and their being entitled to a right to have their own future, which means the right to organize their own minds and bear responsibility for it. Therefore, a new idea is – what we think of ourselves and what others think of ourselves is not always the same. The best way it can be traced is in such trait of our mind as self-assessment. There’s a non-linear dependence between our self-assessment and what others think of us. Besides, a person can disagree with others’ assessment of himself / herself when it’s low or even high. And the higher the intellectual level of the person, the more complex the relationship.

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