Khoroshilov, D.A.

Background. The development of the aesthetic paradigm in modern psychology implies the convergence of the languages of science and art in the cognition of social phenomena in a changing society.

Objective. The aim is to reveal the performativity of art and artistic creativity in the logic of psychological aesthetics of L.S. Vygotsky. Artistic creativity not as much mimetically reflects but rather creates and models psychological states and social processes.

Methods. The methods of historical and comparative analysis of psychological and aesthetic concepts are used; the poetics of the "Silver Age" is interpreted from the standpoint of qualitative methodology in psychology, as the implementation of modernism in Russian culture, anticipating the radical revolutionary changes of 1917.

Results. Based on the conducted psychological study of the art of the "Silver Age" (literature, philosophy, painting, music, dance), the thesis is proved that art performs not mimetic functions of representing the past, present and even future, but above all performative functions. Art acts as a kind of crystallization of the collective experience of society and culture that gave rise to them; at the same time, the image of the world constructed in artistic creativity can have a reverse effect on social reality and transform it, as happened in the art of Russian modernism of the early twentieth century, which became an active participant in the fall of the tsarist regime.

Conclusions. The conducted theoretical and methodological analysis of the performative function of the psychology of art has important consequences for the further development of the concept of social cognition as the construction of the image of the social world in the transitive society. From the point of view of A.N. Leontiev, the image of the world is "scooped out" from reality, however, as G.M. Andreeva suggested, it can resist and even diverge from it under the influence of social changes. In such an epistemologically complex situation, social cognition through art, semiotically close to magic and magical thinking, which allow the subject to symbolically comprehend the transformations of his everyday life and restore mental control over it, acquires special significance.

Relevance. The article reveals the epistemological sources of the scientific school of G.M. Andreeva, which became both the basis and the trigger for the development of social psychology at Moscow University in the second half of the ХХ and early XXI centuries.

Goal. Show the relevance and heuristics of the concept of social psychology and social cognition worked out by G.M. Andreeva. This concept makes it possible to study the affective and cognitive aspects of perception and emotion experience of various vectors of sociocultural changes and crises, including situations of frustration and deprivation of a person's living space, digitalization and mediatization of society and culture.

Methods. The methods of historical hermeneutics, historical-genetic and categorical analysis are used, reconstructing the internal logic and the main stages in the development of the scientific school of social psychology and social cognition of G.M. Andreeva, her innovative research methodology and categorical apparatus.

Results. The socio-cultural and intellectual factors of the emergence and creative development of the G.M. Andreeva’s school for more than a half of century are analyzed. The epistemological prerequisites for constructing social psychology as a scientific discipline included in the real context of the life of society and culture are revealed; the main results of the research of social cognition in conditions of social instability and uncertainty are summarizes and construed. The potential of her ideas in the intellectual context of modern psychology is shown.

Conclusions. Transdisciplinary and fundamental openness of the methodological gestalt of the new scientific school of social psychology created by G.M. Andreeva became the key to its fruitful development in the unpredictably changing space of the modern world. The original author's concept of social cognition, proposed by G.M. Andreeva, unites the disciplinary traditions (paradigms) of psychological and sociological social psychology, which diverged in the twentieth century, and makes it possible to study complex psychological phenomena, patterns and mechanisms of modern society and culture.

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