Philosophy and cinema on the conflict between parents and children

The author examines the problems of misunderstanding between parents and children in the context of personal formation and development. Karsavin's non-classical concept of the dynamic gathering of the universe into the All-Unity explains personal improvement as a three-act process in which the disintegration of the personality into many possible forms, stretched over time, alternates with union into unity. However, as it was shown in the study, a person is not able to recreate in himself even a relative total-unity, in which the third act of gathering will never return to the starting point of the spirit. There will always be a gap between the first union and the third act of reunification, which characterizes the constant alienation of the individual from his own essence. According to Jung, the misunderstanding between generations happens due to the multidirectional paths of life, in the first half of which the process of disintegration of the personality into many forms takes place, and such a dynamics of change causes fear of life. In the second half of it, when it swiftly rushes to the end, a person tries to delay the fall, and the fear of death arises. Bergman in his film Autumn Sonata shows a misunderstanding between a mother and a daughter, which arose as a result of the different directions of their fates, and both are filled with fears: Eve fears life, Charlotte fears death.