Psycho-physiological features as basis of existential consciousness in F.M. Dostoevsky's works

This article is devoted to the study of genesis distinctive qualities ofDostoevsky's existential consciousness from the analysis of the prepotent, character formative psychophysiologicalfeatures of the writer's personality (epileptic mentality constitution, "tunnelconsciousness", creative comprehension of "frontier situations", thought paradoxicality, inhibitionstyle, multilayer semantic of texts, "frontier genres", existential dialogue and others).Existential consciousness is a philosophical and fiction phenomenon, existent simultaneously intwo hypostases: as an individual behavioural writer's text (daily existential consciousness) and as atype of creative thought, realizing itself in different forms of text creation (artistic consciousness).Existential consciousness does not depend on concrete literary period and national culture.Daily existential and artistic hypostasis of existential consciousness belong to the mental sphere,manifest themselves in F.M. Dostoevsky's works, possess similar (text as "life evidence", structure,system, symbolical character etc.) and specific typological features. Daily existential consciousness ofDostoevsky is a demonstration of specifically individual personality reactions to real events of outwardthings and spiritual life, is the largest pointed sphere of human individuality, realized in multi-formsubjective manifestations (life experience, biographical facts, habits, diseases, speech, gesticulation,thought features etc.). Artistic consciousness is "ideal reality", "consciousness-result", "consciousnessproductof inner world mastering".Daily existential consciousness and artistic consciousness of Dostoevsky consist of functional andimageable subsystems. They allow interpreting the same phenomenon simultaneously from differentpositions: relation to the world, attitude to the world, modelling the world. This postulate determinesthe strategy of dialogue coordination of a specialist in the study of literature with Dostoevsky'screative universe: the investigation has to develop from psycho-physiological features and lifeimpressions as the basis of existential consciousness in F.M. Dostoevsky's works to modelling creativeprinciples, to the analysis of Dostoevsky's aesthetic dominants and forms of their representation in textcreation.The investigation of psycho-physiological features of Dostoevsky's personality allows raising theproblem of existential consciousness genesis and to study the methods of consciousness expression indifferent forms of creative writing (works of art, essays, letters, diaries, etc.) and in the literary process,to study the existential consciousness phenomenon as a creative, dynamic system, reflecting mostimportant aesthetic discoveries of the 1860s-1880s.

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