ILYA PRIGOGINE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF XXI CENTURY

Leontyev, Dmitiy A.

doi:10.7868/S20000124-3-1

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S0205-95920000124-3-1

DOI

10.7868/S20000124-3-1

Publication type

Article

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Published

Authors

Dmitiy A. Leontyev

Abstract

The paper gives an explication of the key ideas and discoveries of the prominent scholar, NobelPrize winner Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) which opened new methodological perspectives not only for naturalsciences but also for social and human sciences. The focus of the paper is the relevance of these ideas for thepsychology of our days.The development of the concept of bifurcation in irreversible systems suggests theawareness of limitations of the determinism principle and to the impossibility of prediction of the dynamicsof complex systems, to the understanding of natural laws as referring to the possible rather than to thenecessary, and to the scientific justification of personal causality as well as freedom and responsibility astwo its aspects. The development of the ideas on the role of fluctuations in the dynamics of irreversiblesystems suggests the revision of the role of individual agency in the dynamics of macrosocial systems.Prigogine’s ideas are extremely important for the understanding of the perspectives of transformation ofpsychological science in the 21st century from the study of predictability and self-consistency of individualsto the understanding of personality as self-determined and self-organized system that creates a higher orderout of uncertainty and chaos.

Keywords

Ilya Prigogine, complexity, irreversibility, determinism, time, bifurcation, fluctuation, event, society, person, self-regulation, self-organization

Date of publication

14.12.2025

Year of publication

2025

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815

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GOST	Leontyev D. ILYA PRIGOGINE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF XXI CENTURY // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. – 2018. – V. 39. – Issue 3 C. 5-14 . DOI: 10.7868/S20000124-3-1
MLA	Leontyev, Dmitiy A "ILYA PRIGOGINE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF XXI CENTURY." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. 39.3 (2018).:5-14. DOI: 10.7868/S20000124-3-1
APA	Leontyev D. (2018). ILYA PRIGOGINE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF XXI CENTURY. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. vol. 39, no. 3, pp.5-14 DOI: 10.7868/S20000124-3-1

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