Forerunners of Post-Non-Classical Thinking in Russian Psychology: A.A. Ukhtomsky

The author turns to the analysis of the conceptual sources of post-non-classical thinking of Russian psychology in the article. The specific goal of the methodological research is to reconstruct the ideas of A.A. Ukhtomsky. His ideas contain positive heuristics for the epistemological corps of systemic anthropological psychology. The author, adhering to the logic of the transspec-tive analysis proposed by V.E. Klochko, shows that the ideas of Ukhtomsky have underestimated descriptive constructive potential and can act as a reflexive methodological amplificator of the professional thinking among representatives of modern post-non-classical psychology. The concepts of "dominant", "chronotope", ideas about the temporal character of sense-setting, about the project-constitutive nature of mental reflection, about the life-affective dimension of human thinking, about the imbalance of the living psychological system are examined as the most heuristic for post-non-classical psychology ideas of A.A. Ukhtomsky. The dominant in the context of the human-size plane of analysis is considered as an integral "functional organ" that ensures human interaction with the world of value-semantic bases, as a noetic mechanism for selecting opportunities and event-based enrichment of situational factuality of life. In the reflections of A.A. Ukhtomsky outlined a temporal view of the process of constituting the life world, which unfolds according to the principle of co-setting up experiences that are tied to different spatial and temporal dimensions of the ongoing human life experience, so that they form a single chronotope. Accounting for the interpolating function of consciousness, the importance of which was emphasized by A.A. Ukhtomsky, allows us to complement the well-known postulate by L.S. Vygotsky on the selectively-generating nature of mental reflection. Drawing a parallel between the representations of A.A. Ukhtomsky about thinking and the basic provisions of the semantic theory of thinking by O.K. Tikhomirov, we can find that the thought interested both scientists, above all, as a living, dynamic neoplasm, retaining the imprint of a person's vital-emotional attitude to the subject of thought. Just from the works of A.A. Ukhtomsky it clearly follows that real thinking goes beyond the framework of mental operations subordinate to task logic and is regarded as a cogital projection of the dominant way of the existential-cognitive attitude of a particular person to his own life as a whole. This existential-cognitive relation is manifested, above all, in the method of solving a mental task that is not accidentally chosen by him, which is identically not the accidentally chosen project of the image of the world and the way of life. The idea of the inclusion of real thinking at a particular moment of a person's life was subsequently obtained by experimental justification in the studies of O.M. Krasnoryadtseva. Summing up the methodological research, the author justifies the need for modern scientists to turn to the early conceptual sources of Russian post-non-classical psychology.

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