Я – Другой

The article is devoted to interpersonal rejection that is caused by breaking off the relations in the dyad ‘Me and the Other’. The scientifi c interest is focused purely on ostracism. It is associated with ignoring and excluding a group representative from the general communicative and role-based team network as a retaliatory measure or group punishment. The study proposes the triangle of interpersonal rejection subjects. This triangle includes the one who rejects, the one who is rejected, and the one who witnesses the ostracism episode.

The article presents the results of theoretical analysis of the “collective memory” constructs as a repository of collective experience of a large group, represented in the meanings, symbols, images, cultural patterns, means, mechanisms of reproduction and translation of the past, and the “family memory” constructs as its kind in the context of a small group.

The article outlines the results of an empirical study of the phenomenological experience of the individual who finds himself/ herself in a situation of forced otherness, i.e. a situation where the individual, subjectively perceiving other people as belonging to his/ her in-group, is himself/herself perceived by them as an outsider. The study relies on qualitative methodology, which is based on case studies and whose units of analysis are emotional, cognitive, and behavioral indicators of the personality that is experiencing otherness.