Abstract:
The article is an attempt to localize, understand and evaluate the concept of self-authoring personality by K. Obuchowski, which becomes still more popular and renown in Poland. Here the concept was localised in European psychology. The Author shows two kinds of roots of European personality concepts: philosophical and medical ones. These statements document the examples drawn from the works by W. Stern, K. Buhler, R. Muller-Freienfels, H. Prinzhorn, R Plaut, K, Jasper, K. Lewin and others. The historical thread concludes with pointing at the fact that already in the works by W Stern and K. Lewin personality had been understood as peculiar unity and the contradiction of a person and environment. Obuchowski built his concept on inventively defined notions of cognition and motivation. He accepts the contradiction of a person and environment, but in his concept it achieves a new sense by introducing the factor of time. This factor enlivens the system, introduces dynamics and constitutes the base of this what may be described as autopoiesis.
