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Liminal Systems: Redefining Ways of Being at the Crossroads of Social Change and Personal Experience.

Vladimir Miletić

Keywords:
Liminal systems, Personal Construct Psychology, relationality, culture in transition.

Abstract:
This paper examines recent epidemiological data on borderline and narcissistic traits, suggesting they reflect cultural shifts amid broader societal transitions. Drawing on contemporary developments in Kelly’s theory, it argues that cultural and political changes asymmetrically shape individual psychological constructs — transforming them more than they are transformed in return. The cultural domain thus emerges not as a passive context but as an active, constitutive force that entraps the evolving systems of constructs within a liminal space between personal meanings and public constructs, highlighting the dynamic interplay between subjective identity and collective frameworks. The perspective outlined in the paper attempts not to limit personal agency, but to understand it in the context of relational thinking implicit in Kelly’s Personal Construct Psychology.