SYMBOL AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN ANCIENT MYTH AND MODERN SOCIETY

Abstract

The problem of social transformation of passionarity into subjectivity is of scientific interest. Let us consider this problem in the context of the conceptualization and subject-energy approach of A.B. Nevelev. Passionarity is an energetic charge for action. The stronghold of passionarity is a powerful energy saturation, focus, and lens that gathers all possible areas of activity. A passionate person is a person whose energy is extremely concentrated due to the fact that the subject matter is as “nullified” as possible. The passionist is “a supersubject” because he solves fundamental historical problems. The passionist’s role is to renew culture. Subjectivity is the child of passionarity, its aspect and concretization. Passionarity is the genetic source of subjectivity, subjectivity in possibility, and a mature real subject is an already realized opportunity and a concretization of passionarity, subjectivity in reality. The philosophical category of “subjectivity” is an intermediate link between a specific goal–setting and a passionate-energetic message. But energy passionarity as a direction is characterized by uncertainty. Subjectivity is subjectively defined. A person is initially potentially subjective, because he sets a goal and thereby turns into a subject. Goalsetting is a law of human activity and a characteristic of a subject, and a person is a goal–setting being. In any case, a person always acts according to the same scheme: sets a goal, finds a means, directs it to an object, gets a product and a result — the constituent form is always the same. Thus, subjectivity, that is, a product, is inevitably born out of passionarity. Subjectivity is the otherness of passionarity. Passionarity is necessarily concretized in such subject forms that turn the passionist into a goal-setting subject. The conceptual schemes “hero-passionate as a subject” and “heroism as the peak of the subjectivity of the people” are the realization of the possibility of holding the spirit and the steady retention of its energetic and passionate forms.