THE DEMONSTRATION OF REFLECTION AS A COMPONENT OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS’ STRUCTURE IN THE TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

The article presents the role of reflection as an active process of self-discovery, internal discussions, understanding of emotional self-experiences, life experiences and relationships in the achievement temporal reality. It is shown that everyday experience allows you to learn not only the surrounding reality and to create a picture of the world but also to obtain an existential experience of self-consciousness. The study of changes of consciousness in temporal views in general is validated by the example of longitudinal studies, not focusing only on the features of formation of time perspective. The group of representations where the interaction processes of reflection and actual experiences in heterogeneous and multiple situations of life forms the knowledge of temporal reality and knowledge of ourselves is selected. The comprehension of the following phenomena is demonstrated: individual’s internal time, underestimation and overestimation of time in different situations, «temporal deficit», the quickening of time in ontogeny in representations of the time characteristics, subjective speed and the relativity of time flow in consciousness. It is shown that person objectifies their essence and gives the character value of the lifetime with the limitations and irreversibility in the value-semantic representations: «time is life, time is my life», «lifetime», «time is the life that was». Time representations that reveal the features of the future’s formation, the search of meaning in life and realization of life plans that facilitates implementation of changes, inability to stay still, the desire to exceed ourselves are demonstrated.