The supraconscious is the level of a person’s mental activity that is not amenable to individual conscious-volitional control when solving creative problems.
The idea of the specificity of this level was put forward by K.S. Stanislavsky, who designated it by the term “superconsciousness”, which meant the highest stage of the creative process, different from both its conscious and unconscious components. Subsequently, P. V. Simonov interpreted superconsciousness as a mechanism of creative intuition, due to which the recombination of previous impressions occurs, whose correspondence to reality is established a second time.
In relation to the processes of individual scientific creativity, the supraconscious is represented in their regulation by the categorical apparatus of cognition, which is not recognized by the scientist himself, absorbed by the subject of research, but whose objective logic of development is reflected in his hypotheses and ideas. Therefore, in order to “decipher” the supraconscious, a categorical analysis is necessary.
The concept of the supraconscious allows us to distinguish between two forms of unconscious mental activity: depending on the information already imprinted in the brain (determination by the past) — the unconscious; aspiring to the creation of what has never been in personal and collective experience (determination by the necessary future) — the supraconscious. Such creation occurs in the process of interaction of the individual with the world of cultural values, which he not only assimilates, but also creates, reflecting the overdue tendencies of the objective development of this world. The result of this interaction is artistic images, scientific discoveries and other products of creativity, in which, along with what appears in the mind of the individual subject that gave rise to them, there is an objectively significant content that is not represented in his reflection (not realized by him), imprinted by the work of thought at the level of the supraconscious .