On the a priori origin of creativity

Aim – to explore the nature of creativity as a synergistic process.

Creativity is a specific human activity presenting a complex configuration of all the personal abilities and characteristics such as sensual and emotional states, intellect, imagination, personal and social characteristics, somatic features and the situationality. But there must be something that transforms all this ontic multitude into an ontologically significant creative event. This something is an a priori form of sensibility – spatium (by Deleuze), a sense of the intensity of depth and capacity of space, which, like an attractor, starts the process of crystallization of the work of art. Any creative action (accomplished experience) reveals the deep connections of this particular situation, given here and now. Accomplishment is the very intense interaction of the agent with the material, the exchange of energies between the acting person and the environment, the synergy of a person and the world, where spatium (intuition of the depth and vitality of the situation) plays the role of an attractor, forcing the variety merge into a whole.

Results. The a priori ability to contemplate the whole (spatium), inherent in human sensibility, is realized in specific historical and specific cultural forms of art in different ways. The article outlines the history of such an implementation.