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Introduction. The article outlines the general view of modern convergence trends between pedagogical anthropology and the existential-dialogic directions of the philosophy of education, and as a consequence of this process, it considers the personality as an open system of education and bringing-up system through interaction, dialogue with the Other, it recognizes the exclusive role of intersubjectivity in «Man-man» systems. The aim of the paper is to consider an intersubjective process of imitation, the transfer of meaningful symbols of professions, to establish the content of this process and its influence on subjectivity in the professional self-determination. Methodology and methods of the research. The research is based on A. Bandura’s socio-psychological theory of social learning, whose basis is the notion of socialization, which clarifies the significant influence of information obtained in intersubjective interaction on the formation of a subjectively significant ideal image of professional activity. The ideal image of professional activity is formed in conditions of age and stage-by-stage formation. The initial and simplest symbol is a gesture, according to the ideas of J. Meade, as the initial stage of the action, representing the whole action. Imitation of a gesture, as an elementary unit of a symbol, is the starting point for the formation of an intersubjective contact. In this connection, the stages of intersubjective modality are considered starting from the meeting, through the accession and use of the unity of the pre-experienced forms of cognition, concluding with the joint elaboration of common meanings. The procedure of analogous apperception is traced, as is the determination of the specific moment of the transfer of professional symbols. Result of the research. Through the use of the provisions of the theory of the communicative action of Jü. Habermas, the sequence of development of the analogous apperception is established, as the completion of the object through the experience of the Other in the generalization of the norms of communication and communicative rationality that realizes the formation of new, common meanings. The analysis of the scheme of intersubjective interaction reveals the key importance of completing the object through the experience of the Other (analogous apperception) taking on the symbolic information from it. Conclusion. The article reveals the content of the process of imitation as an intersubjective aspect of professional self-determination, which serves as the basis for constructing deep subjective constructions of the ideal image of professional activity.