Personality as a Historico-Ethnic Category

Though there are any number of theories of personality in Soviet psychology, common to all is the idea of the social origin of the personality—in general, the postulate that such indivisible mental structures as the personality or consciousness are socially determined. This idea, which was clearly formulated in philosophical terms by Marx in his Theses on Feuerbach, namely, the sixth thesis: the human essence is "an ensemble of all social relations,"1 admits, however, of quite disparate psychological interpretations in the strict sense.