Communicative Nature of the Productive Imagination

Abstract

У статті наведено думку, що продуктивна уява постає не просто засобом комунікації, але сама має виразну комунікативну природу. Продуктивна уява є здатністю бачити світ очима роду людського, очима інших людей, реально в них не перевтілюючись. Продуктивна уява у статті розглядається у контексті дійсної породжувальної основи людського буття – суцільних звернень людської суб’єктивності до суб’єктивності інших у пошуках спорідненості, злагоди, спів-чуття, спів-розуміння.The article represents the idea that productive imagination appears not only as a means of communication, but also has a clear communicative nature. Usually the imagination is interpreted as the activity of combining famous images, their elements, resulting in something «fictitious», something «new», «that never happened before». Imagination (fantasy) seems to tear away a person from the surrounding reality. However, productive imagination, on the contrary, gives a unique opportunity to see what is real. In order to perceive an object, to see it, the object must be reduced to an image, imagine, and only in such an image, it becomes visible as it is in its essence. An animal perceives the world through the eyes of its species and this ability is transmitted genetically. Human’s productive imagination is the ability to see the world through the eyes of the human race, through the eyes of other people, not really transforming them into oneself. This ability captures the individual in the process of mastering the forms of human life. From the outset, from the cradle, «the experience» of the child is formed solely by appropriating the experience of others, adults, the experience of generations of the human race. Only in this way is formed «her own point of view», «his experience». Productive imagination appears not only as one of the abilities of man, it acts as the ability to absorb any ability, the basis of creativity of all forces of the soul, the driving force of the human soul