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<p>In <italic>Empiriomonism</italic>, Aleksandr Bogdanov introduces the term ‘affectional’ that he borrowed from Richard Avenarius but revised in the light of William James’s theory of emotions. The ‘affectional’ is an index of energy balance between suffering and pleasure. Employing Bogdanov’s revised notions of affectional as an element of any organization or complex, Sergei Eisenstein develops the principles of expressivity. He sees emotions as an organism’s embodied reaction to its interaction with the environment. Eisenstein proposes a notion of an emotional script, which is a narrative of a prospective viewer telling what has impressed him. Aleksandr Rzheshevskiy, a scriptwriter of Eisenstein’s never completed ‘Bezhin Meadow’ (1937), became an ‘emotional scriptwriter’ in practice. The paper investigates the relations between Bogdanov’s notions of the affectional, Eisenstein’s theory of expressiveness, and the emotional script as conceived by Eisenstein and realized by Rzheshevskiy.</p></abstract>

In Empiriomonism, Aleksandr Bogdanov introduces the term ‘affectional’ that he borrowed from Richard Avenarius but revised in the light of William James’s theory of emotions. The ‘affectional’ is an index of energy balance between suffering and pleasure. Employing Bogdanov’s revised notions of affectional as an element of any organization or complex, Sergei Eisenstein develops the principles of expressivity. He sees emotions as an organism’s embodied reaction to its interaction with the environment. Eisenstein proposes a notion of an emotional script, which is a narrative of a prospective viewer telling what has impressed him. Aleksandr Rzheshevskiy, a scriptwriter of Eisenstein’s never completed ‘Bezhin Meadow’ (1937), became an ‘emotional scriptwriter’ in practice. The paper investigates the relations between Bogdanov’s notions of the affectional, Eisenstein’s theory of expressiveness, and the emotional script as conceived by Eisenstein and realized by Rzheshevskiy.

Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein on Emotions: The Affectional, the Theory of Expressiveness, and the Emotional Script

Cultural Science

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In Empiriomonism, Aleksandr Bogdanov introduces the term ‘affectional’ that he borrowed from Richard Avenarius but revised in the light of William James’s...

Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein on Emotions: The Affectional, the Theory of Expressiveness, and the Emotional Script

Article Category: Research articles

Published Online: Dec 22, 2021

Page range: 101 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/csj-2021-0008

Keywords
Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Bogdanov, affectional, emotions, emotional script, theory of expressiveness

© 2021 Lyubov bugaeva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein on Emotions: The Affectional, the Theory of Expressiveness, and the Emotional Script

Article Category: Research articles

Published Online: Dec 22, 2021

Page range: 101 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/csj-2021-0008

KeywordsSergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Bogdanov, affectional, emotions, emotional script, theory of expressiveness

© 2021 Lyubov bugaeva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Bogdanov, affectional, emotions, emotional script, theory of expressiveness