Soviet Psychotechnics and it`s Connection with Unproductive Creativity

The starting point of the work is one of the simplest techniques for falling asleep of a former Soviet citizen: falling asleep through the Robinson Crusoe task. To understand and describe this practice, which allows us to simultaneously raise questions about suggestion and self-hypnosis, the study uses the concept of "psychotechnics" developed by Hugo Munsterberg at the beginning of the 20th century. The world of sleep is considered in the work as a special environment (medium). Separately analyzed is the practice of invention on the island, described as a "bricolage". The main focus of the study was on the relationship between escapism (self-closure) and telepathy (radical permeability). An attempt is made to describe the field between these states and their mediation. For this, the concepts of cultural techniques and anthropotechnics are attracted through the works of F. Kittler, B. Siegert P. Sloterdijk.