EMIGRATORY INTENTIONS

The subject of this article is regulatory influence of a persons sphere of mental images on the formation of individual attitude to emigration. Mental image sphere is considered to be a multidimensional dynamical system of secondary mental images. Image representation may evoke emotions of different intensity and content as well as induce different actions and behavioral activity.

The article shows how such elements of cultural tradition as folk fairy tales and traditional children's games participate in the development of emotional sphere and creative thinking of preschool children, as well as in building their life strategies including emigration at mature age. The author present the results of experimental work and empirical research in the subject field.

Macropsychological analysis described in this article allows to examine emigratory intentions as manifestations of some new modes of existential experience arising from global changes engulfing all society. Among the particular psychological phenomena the author distinguishes attachment to high-speed life tempo, initiation of new artificial necessities, changes in the sphere of values, social amnesia and some others.