In conditions of increasing social, cultural, and historical instability, the problem of existential choice of the individual acquires particular psychological significance. Existential choice is understood as an act of taking responsibility for one’s own existence in situations of uncertainty, value conflict, and loss of stable meaning frameworks. The aim of this article is to analyze the psychological mechanisms of existential choice in situations of cultural and historical conflict, based on the novel Ali and Nino by Kurban Said. The methodological basis of the study is a qualitative theoretical-psychological analysis of the literary narrative, considered as a model of an existential choice situation. The theoretical framework draws on existential psychology (V. Frankl, Psychotherapy and Existentialism; I. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy; A. Camus, Creativity and Freedom). The analysis identifies key psychological mechanisms of existential choice, including the experience of freedom, existential anxiety, responsibility, and meaning uncertainty, which are amplified in conditions of cultural and historical conflict. The study concludes that literary narrative can be regarded as a productive instrument for psychological comprehension of the processes of existential self-determination.
Eralieva Yrys (Sat,) studied this question.