Victor Ovcharenko

Victor Ovcharenko (

In 1969 he graduated from the historical department of the Belarusian State University (BSU). After finishing post-graduate study at the chair of philosophy of BSU he wrote his doctoral thesis Critical analysis of the personality theory of Freud's psychoanalytical system (1973, BSU). From 1972 to 1982 he worked as a lecturer, a senior lecturer, and an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the BSU.

In 1982-1983 he was an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lectures of Social Sciences of the BSU. From 1983-1987 he worked as an assistant professor of the chair of philosophy at the Refresher Institute for Lecturers of Social Sciences of Moscow State University, named after M.V. Lomonosov.

In 1987 he was an assistant professor and later a professor (1995) of the chair of philosophy at Moscow State Linguistic University. His doctoral thesis was Genesis, Foundations, Forms and Tendencies of Sociological Psychologism Development as a Phenomenon of Social Thought (1995, MSU).

The scientific achievements of V. Ocharenko connect sociological psychologism, the problems of

In 1993 V. Ovcharenko initiated the campaign to return original documents and materials about the history of the Russian Psychoanalytical movement to Russia.

In 1994 he published the Psychoanalytical Glossary — the first Russian language edition of a dictionary and reference book on psychoanalysis that presented systematized data on the history of psychoanalysis, its ideas and leaders, terminology, founding documents, classical and modern schools and theories. He has marked out three principal stages in the development of classical psychoanalysis: 1) Clinical (1896—1905), 2) Psychological (1905—1913) and 3) Metaphysical (1913—1939).

In 1996 V. Ovcharenko worked out the first historical periods of the Russian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical movement. With Russian psychoanalyst Valery Leibin, he published The Anthology of Russian Psychoanalysis (in two volumes) describing the first century of Russian psychoanalytical ideas.

V. Ovcharenko introduced the categories of "sociological psychologism", "conceptual problematic complex", "conceptual problematic associations", "latent and contact world history", "dispersed rational sphere", "dispersed psychoanalytical sphere", "multibasisness of a person", etc. He published about 1500 articles in different countries. These include more than 700 biographies of philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. He also wrote articles in Russian and foreign journals, encyclopedias and dictionaries.^[2]

• "Psychoanalytical Glossary" (1994)
• "Sociological Psychologism. Critical Analysis" (1990, with A.A. Gritsanov)
• "The Man and Alienation" (1991, with A.A. Gritsanov)
• "The History of Sociology" (1993, 1997, co-author)
• "Philosophical and Social Anthropology" (1997, co-author)
• "Psychoanalytical Literature in Russia" (1998, with
  V.M.Leibin
  )
• "Psychoanalysis. Popular Encyclopedia" (1998, co-author)
• "The Anthology of Russian Psychoanalysis" (1999, in two volumes, with
  V.M.Leibin
  )
• "The Newest Philosophical Dictionary" (1999, 2001, co-author)
• "Modern Western Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Russian Psychoanalysts" (2000)
• "Classical and Modern Psychoanalysis" (2000)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy" (2000, co-author)
• "Postmodernism. Encyclopedia" (2001, co-author)
• "The History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia" (2002, co-author)
• "The World Encyclopedia. Philosophy of the 21st Century" (2002, co-author)
• "The English-Russian Psychoanalytical Dictionary" (2003, in two volumes)
• "The Newest Philosophical Dictionary" (2003, co-author)
• "Sociology. Encyclopedia" (2003, co-author)
• "The History of Psychology" (2005, co-author)
• "Summa Psychoanalitica" (2006, in nineteen volumes)
• "Clinical Psychology. Dictionary" (2007, co-author)
• "The Bolshevist Philosophy" (2008, in three volumes)
• "Psychoanalysis. The Newest Encyclopedia" (2009, editor-in-chief)

• Ovcharenko V.I. Under the Badge of Destruction
• Ovcharenko V.I. The History of the Russian Psychoanalysis and Problems of Its Periodization
• Ovcharenko V.I. Psychoanalytical Anthropology
• Ovcharenko V.I. Realization of the Unconscious
• Ovcharenko V.I. Status and Authenticity of Psychoanalysis
• Ovcharenko V.I. Intentions and Prospects of the Russian Psychoanalysis
• Ovcharenko V.I. Multibasisness of a Person

• Faces of Russia. Russian Intellectual Elite
• Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Who Is Who In Russian Psychology
• Belarusian sociologists
• Biography.Ru. Biographic Encyclopedia
• The World of Dictionaries. Dictionary of Philosophy
• The History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia

• Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Kaleidoscope

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