“Трансцендентальная аффектология” Андрея Белого

The article attempts to consider Andrei Belyiʼs ideas about affects in the perspective of contemporary anthropological, aesthetic and psychoanalytical studies, as well as in retrospect from Kantian premises, concerning their correlation with the transcendental consciousness. In his Istoriia stanovleniia samosoznaiushchei dushi (ISSD) (1926) Belyi perceives affects in the life of the body as experience of the immediate sensations of some “self-conscious I”. According to Belyi, affects are not the obstacles for such consciousness, but on the contrary, are the privileged channel of connecting the individual with universal existence, which Belyi, using the anthroposophical vocabulary, calls the “astral”. In other words, the “self-conscious I” meets the “astral body of the world” at the point of affects. As a result of such a meeting point, the body and sensuality of a human being should individualize, and consciousness should acquire its own passion.