Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of Recognition of One's Own Violence in Individual Experience

At the current scientific stage of violence research, we are forced to state the limitations and fragmentation of existing theories of destructive behavior, describing the consideration of individual facets of the phenomenon and taking into account only the psychodynamic level of explanation of aggression and violence. As well as the need to generalize the considered theoretical concepts in the form of a single model of the conditions and prerequisites for the occurrence of violence and supplement it with a holistic description of the phenomenology of a person's experience of recognizing his own violence, which opens up an understanding and the possibility of personal treatment of aggression and violence. These questions characterize the problem of our research, which consists in highlighting and describing the phenomenon of recognizing one's own violence as a complement to ideas about the phenomenon of violence in general. The purpose of the study is to detect and provide a meaningful description of the phenomenon of recognizing one's own violence. Description of the genesis and dynamics of self-violence recognition. We are convinced that recognizing one's own violence is necessary for further taking an authentic position on violence/nonviolence in one's own experience. Based on the understanding of the phenomenon of recognizing one's own violence, practical recommendations in counseling and psychotherapy can be formulated that make work with aggressive behavior more purposeful. Learning to recognize your own violence is the first step to expressing yourself freely and authentically. The sooner a person can learn to recognize his aggression and violence, the more opportunities he will have to relate to himself and the world, take an authentic position, make a decision and find an adequate, proportionate way of dealing with the situation – to protect value and live fulfillment. Based on the theory of fundamental motivations, a model of the conditions and prerequisites for the occurrence of violence based on the results of a theoretical review and a structural model of the phenomenon of recognizing one's own violence based on the results of an empirical study are presented.