Ovsyaniko-KULIKOVSKIJ Dmitri

(1853 - 1920)-Russian psychologist, a representative of the psychological trend in literature and languages. Central to the study of mental activity is not considered the result as 'most of the process'. Progress in the evolution of the psyche was driving to the improvement, enrichment, sophisticated intellectual and sensory areas, to the subordination of will power apparatus of the mind and the higher senses, to consolidate the synthesis of all the elements and processes of the mind. OA-K. raised questions of egocentrism and neegotsentrizma on feelings and thoughts of man. With that he tied the criterion that the path of concept. The identity was determined by them as a synthesis of mental processes of an individual, a product of civilization. Arts play the role of educator and disseminator of the moral sense, the idea of humanity. Developing problems in the theory and psychology of creativity, O.-K. shows the values of observational and experimental methods in the art. Scientific creativity OA-K. defined as the knowledge and the development of the idea of infinite space in its forms, and artistic creativity as giving the same in the forms of human expression. Proceedings of the OA-K. served to strengthen the national interest in psychology and philosophy to the development problems of the psychology of creativity.