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Emotions are ubiquitous; they accompany all spheres of people’s existence and make up the basis of art. Being both a complete and complex structure, the emotional sphere takes an important place in the organization of the inner world and in interpersonal relations; it is closely associated with other psychological characteristics and parts of life. The philosopher S. N. Mareev writes that the problem of ideality of emotions is absolutely absent in modern psychology, it has never been even set. The author considers that this problem was not solved even by L.S. Vygotskii despite his deep analysis of the long history of studying emotions [3]. Indeed, L.S. Vygotskii had not included emotion in a scope of the highest mental functions which he allocated with such attributes as ideality, mediation, arbitrariness, consciousness and instrumentality. Nevertheless, he had divided the social and psychological nature of the functioning of emotions and their social mission as the independent lines of functioning mental commencement, having a different history and nature than mediations and means used in contrast to updating naturally set emotional reactions at the organismic level. He saw the basic mission of emotion psychology in the function of emotions to inspire people to an activity of creative nature and to set high potentials of energy and interests in life. "Emotions would not have been necessary had they been not active … They were the organizers of behavior for the most hard, fatal and responsible minutes of life. The moment of activity in emotion makes the most important line in the doctrine as for its psychological nature. It is incorrect to think of emotions represented purely by passive experience." – L.S. Vygotskii writes [4]. This postulate of the cultural and historical psychology is of methodological value in studying the nature of emotions, the emotional reaction during the understanding of art included. |
