Abstract
<p>The paper raises the question of the possibility of creating a general psychological field of research. The condition for the beginning of such research is a sufficiently complete general model of psychological phenomena. The assumption is made that the work of identifying suitable psychological universals has already been done as a part of cultural-historical psychology. We summarised the investigations, starting with L.S. Vygotsky's idea of a psychological &laquo;unit&raquo;. With the help of some modern theories, the assumption is substantiated that meaning is a feeling of jointness, the essence of the human in man. As an example we took the &laquo;integral unit of the human life world&raquo; construction in the F.E. Vasilyuk&rsquo;s school and its transformation into a scheme of jointness. By analysing F.E. Vasilyuk's notion of &laquo;experience&raquo;, the activity-dialogical model of jointness is extrapolated and filled with &laquo;meaning&raquo;. This model is proposed as a suitable tool for generalising psychological knowledge. An assumption is made about resonance as a fundamental mechanism of jointness formation. In this paper we describe the properties of the prism of jointness and question its sufficiency for the beginning of general psychological research.</p>
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