Psychological insight into artistic description of music

The article is dedicated to such an interesting and diverse in science phenomenon as psychological insight. In two directions of philology - Literature Studies and Linguistics - psychological insight is understood differently. That is why the authors take into account both definitions in order to create a complete picture. Based on consideration of the notion of psychological insight from the point of view of Literature Studies and Linguistics, the authors highlight its common philological criteria (soul and feelings of the character, description of the inner world of the character through the details, fragments of the text showing events, thoughts and motivates of the character); cognitive and pragma-linguistic features (supposition, influence upon the reader); methods and ways of its representation in the works of art (the author’s direct indication of the feelings in the character’s soul, inner details: inner monologue and author’s psychological narration, inner speech, memory images and imagination, description of dreams). The article also analyzes the examples of psychological impact of music on consciousness and subconsciousness of the characters of the texts.