Krishtaleva, L. G. Dychotomy: Art and Life

Abstract: Trying to draw the line between art(play) and life, we faced the fundamental problem of Self. Relations between human and the world of art or play have very important similiarities because they perform the double-combined motion — eschatological emergence and contemplative return to one’s self. The result of this double-combined motion can be compared to the result of transcendental function described by Jung as the unity of consciousness and unconsciousness aimed at gaining one’s selfhood. The study of the dynamic structure of a soul allows to use psychological analytics of late Jung’s works and Gadamer’s phenomenology of art which have similar features and represent typological properties of varius internal experience. When analyzing mobile relations between consciousness and unconsciousness, the author of the article used such philosophical terms as acceptance, amechany, automatic spontaneous reactions, reponses and actions of human nature. The article also reflects the author’s emotional experience and self-observation which allowed to discover acceptance, amechany and spontaneity.

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