Barnych M. Actor's "expieriencing a role" as a creative process

The thesis presents studies of actor's skill of feeling the role. The denoted assignment foresees comprehension of essence and peculiarities of functioning of the process of actor's feeling in art. The conducted observations of skills of other actors, which were relying on method of psychological analyze of the activity (of N. Leontyev), have showed, that in the process of actor's feeling the role are actualizing themselves as separate psychologically bounded from each other activities of an actor, which are determined with terms "activity - creation" and "activity - performance". As a consequence of functioning research of those activities as a complex process observations was discovered, that the given process reflects on internal activity of actor's "psychoreflective" organization. Such reflection, which is connected with similarity of physical activities of an actor to physical activities of character, projects on the actor's activity in the form of organism reaction, that are appropriate to role reactions, which makes up the essence of psychological state of actor's feeling the role. For the first time with the help of definition of "catharsis" the affiliation of the emotional element of actor's feeling the role was analyzed and proved with one of the variety of catharsis.