The essence and meaning of provocation from the point of view of postmodernism, existentialism, hermeneutics

This article explicates the essence and meaning of provocation as a philosophical and anthropological phenomenon in the context of postmodernism, existentialism, and hermeneutics. It is shown that the meaning of provocation is that the I do not express to Other in words, but offers as a hint in the form of an imitation of something in reality, but at the level of the imaginary and symbolic, the expressed content is indicated with the help of language. The essence of provocation is the self-expression of the individual, which is carried out differently at the level of the real, on the one hand, and the imaginary and symbolic, on the other.