Methodological potential and role of the historical and systematic approach as means of historical-psychological research

We studythe methodological problems of self-psychology in the context of developing a paradigm of humanitarian and non-classical type of rationality.Historical background of psychology in the context of the system is not so much a restoration of a static system of goals andvalues of paradigmatic categories as much as the experience of deconstruction, a specific algorithm for a holistic vision of psychologicalknowledge to the identification of implicit value-semantic dimensions of human cognition. Methodological shift from onedimensional,monosystematic theories to systematically deterministic conception of he human is an ontological appeal to the multidimensionalityof his/her spiritual sphere, its values and meaning. Historical and systematic approach developed by V. Klochko, continuesthe tradition of historical-categorical, historical and evolutionary approaches, but differs from the traditional cumulative-line viewof history focusing on the specifics of the changes of subject representations of the mental, and structuring in favour of the differentialcharacteristic and historicity - of the procedural one. Trans-spective analysis actualising the present in the past, reveals the inner tendenciesof psychology, identifies the meaning of its substantive transformation. If the traditions of classical epistemological indeterminacyof the potential and actual uncertainty in the object of psychology considered it scientifically false, within the historical and systematicapproach the subject of psychology is a methodological invariant of its scientific development. Its uncertainty is a prerequisite for systemiccomplications and psychological self-knowledge, systemic manifestation of historical levels of particular psychological knowledgeof the human. Through the concept of chronotope and the attractor state trans-spective vision of modern psychology is justified.Thus, the historical and systematic approach can serve as a means of methodological analysis of the scientific establishment of psychologythat reveals: 1) systematic relations between the theories of various degrees of generality in their relation to empirical knowledge; 2)interdisciplinary interaction (multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity) based on the methodology of the network that can detect thetrend of its scientific establishment; 3) values and meanings of the researcher, which are a part of ones personal knowledge (M. Polanyi);4) оntological, anthropological (metaphysical) foundation methodological shift. (And, after U. Maturana and F. Varela, metasystemprofessional thinking of a psychologist can be viewed in the context of the history of structural linking of the basic concepts ofpsychological schools and theories); 5) transformation of the subject are systemically caused not so much by a change of epistemologicaljustification of paradigmatic samples, but by the historical and cultural context of the being of the thinking (M. Mamardashvili).

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