Metaphor “after...” in understanding the problem “happiness”, “unhappiness” and “post happiness”
The paradox of practical psychology is largely determined by the fact that, on the one hand, psychologists seek to make people happier, but on the other hand, psychologists themselves often can not clearly articulate that there is happiness. In this situation, any additional theoretical understanding of the problems of happiness, unhappiness and after happiness can become an auxiliary (a kind of “hint”) for both the psychologist practice, and for the creatively oriented client. The article analyzes the basic traditions in the understanding of happiness: mythological, fabulous, religious, biological, philosophical, psychological, traditions of ordinary consciousness, as well as - sociological tradition. Happiness is also considered in the context of close concepts (success, satisfaction with life and career, personal meaning, luck, etc.), including the antipodes of happiness (the main of which is the unrealization of the existing potential, close in essence, to the “psychological phenomenon of the fool”). The study by traditional methods. where each 86 f lower is a separate joy (alternately “blooming” and “withering”), which together represent a holistic happiness, constantly updated and even modified by the “master” of such “flower”. There is also a generalized model of happiness, unhappiness and post happiness, built on the intersection of the axis of individual activity in rethinking one's happiness and axis of greater or lesser personality involve ment in the interests of others and society as a whole. Unhappiness is understood as choosing a bad position for a given person (or group, community) on this model. Ethical limitations are considered in the search for a different variant of happiness (afterhappiness), which could in the long run provoke the regret and disappointment of a person, “after...” he generally decided to rethink the already available happiness, as if violating the principle, «from the good are not looking for...