Human loneliness as a personal experience. An attempt at typification of the phenomenon

Abstract

The research purpose of the thesis is to present loneliness as a human personal experience from the perspective of an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of loneliness. This phenomenon has been juxtaposed with the sense of loneliness and isolation. While pursuing the research purpose the author has set, she aims at typification and – as a result – defining specificity of experiencing loneliness, drawing pedagogical conclusions. Finally, she concludes that solitude understood in a positive way, as a conscious choice (and not an exclusion), is necessary for the proper development of a human being who should alternate the time of interaction with people with moments of silence and reflection occurring during the meetings ‘with oneself’.