HUMAN’S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: FROM METAPHOR TO CONCEPT (PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATIONS BY S. KRZHIZHANOVSKY, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND J. LACAN)
The article aims to define the concept “existential crisis” avoiding tautology of identity, severe confrontation and integration of opposites. The author analyzes evolution from S. Krzhizhanovsky’s metaphors to tautology of identity in Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy and, further, to destroying identity and “grasping” the definition in J. Lacan’s philosophy. According to the author, to clarify the definition “existential crisis” it would be appropriate to use identities involving opposition of the conceptions “existence/nothing”, “real/imaginary”, “integrated whole / crack”.