THE STATE OF SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM OF RESEARCHING THE FIGURE OF THE OUTSTANDING UKRAINIAN PSYCHOLOGIST M. GROT (1852–1899)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the figure of the outstanding Ukrainian psychologist M. Grot based on the first chapter of the PhD thesis on the history of psychology of graduate student P. Nesterenko on the topic "Psychological ideas of creativity in the scientific heritage of M. Grot (1852–1899)". The author conducted an analysis of the literature on the topic of the dissertation research and proposed a research source base, on the basis of which he will search for psychological ideas in the scientific work of M. Grot. Considering the state of scientific development of the problem, the author schematically divided the literature about M. Grot into two categories of sources: 1) pre-revolutionary works (end of the 19th century – 1917); 2) modern scientific research of recent times (1991 – present time). 1) Pre-revolutionary research works (end of the 19th century – 1917) of the life path and work of M. Grot are represented by such names as E. Spektorskyi, O. Shebor, V. Shenrock, V. Ivanovskyi, L. Lopatin, P. Sokolov. 2) Modern scientific research of modern times (1991 – present time). Among the names of researchers who belong to the most recent period of research on the work of M. Grot, one can include M. Boiprav, O. Kildivatov, L. Kosovsky, V. Manzhai, N. Muhomodeev, B. Matyushko and others. Based on the analysis of the texts of the above-mentioned authors, the author comes to the conclusion that the state of scientific development of the problem in the pre-revolutionary works of researchers is very low and almost non-existent, because we do not find a single scientist who would specifically research the psychological ideas of M. Grot. The maximum that various researchers of Grot’s creative heritage come to is a description of his biographical path and a critical analysis of M. Grot’s philosophical works. In contrast to the pre-revolutionary works, the state of scientific development of the problem by modern researchers allows us to come to the conclusion that the figure of M. Grot is beginning to be analyzed in more detail and his creative heritage arouses the scientific interest of modern scientists. But there is still no attempt to study and systematize M. Grot’s psychological ideas. For modern psychologists, the figure of M. Groth is also mysterious and incomprehensible in many ways.