Existential dynamics of thinking as a subject of systemic anthropological psychology

Statement of the problem. The article presents a theoretical and methodological justification for the need to include the existential dynamics of thinking in the subject field of systemic anthropological psychology. In the process of analyzing the main conceptual vectors of the formation of this scientific school, defining its basic provisions and prospects for further development, research guidelines related to the psychology of human existence were identified. The main problem that dictated the need to write the article is the question of the theoretical elaboration of the existential-ontological dimension of thinking. Existing concepts of the dynamics of thinking are focused on fairly short temporal dimensions of the thought process limited by the solution of an experimental problem, and do not allow covering the entire spectrum of facts and phenomena that do not fit into this time frame. A person in the course of independently initiated and long-term thinking practices is involved in them not only as a bearer of intelligence for the sake of solving pragmatic problems, but also as an integral subject of life for the sake of realizing in these practices the intense possibilities of meaningful existence. The purpose of the article is to reveal the explanatory and descriptive potential of the construct ‘existential dynamics of thinking’ and its significance for the development of an existential-anthropological approach to the study of thinking. The methodology of the study consists of the conceptual apparatus of systemic anthropological psychology, the ideas of existential-phenomenological philosophy and psychology, as well as a universal methodological tool of postnon- classics - transspective analysis. A transspective view of the dynamics of thinking allows us to make an analytical figure out of the chronotopic dimension of thinking of a person involved in a thought search for a long time, perceiving its tension and fruitfulness as markers of existential fulfillment and meaningfulness of his own life. Research results. In the process of phenomenological reconstruction and theoretical understanding of the ontological situation and existential dynamics of human thinking, we formulated a number of heuristic ideas for systemic anthropological psychology. Firstly, taking into account the existential dynamics of thinking allows us to explain the phenomenon of free, independent inclusion of a person in a long-term mental search (at the level of vital necessity) as one of the modes of life self-realization. Secondly, this construct allows us to expand the epistemological boundaries of the subject field of the psychology of thinking, to include in it a number of characteristics of the mental act, understood from the position of post-non-classics: multidimensionality, nonlinearity, transtemporality, inclusion in life relationships. Thirdly, the existential dynamics of thinking is associated with the processes of authentication of self-transcendence of a person as a subject of mental activity. Fourthly, this is the need to study thinking not only as a cognitive process, but also as an experience of an existential order. The possibility of using the concept of ‘event thinking’ as a holistic unit of analysis of the existential dynamics of thinking is substantiated. It is shown that the continuously developing and complexifying life-world acts as a holistic ontological space in which the existential dynamics of human thinking unfolds, and the chronotope acts as the principle of its organization.