Phenomenology of the face: where does the face speak from?

• Kirsanova L.I.

  Lidiya I. Kirsanova. Vladivostok branch of the Russian Customs Academy. Vladivostok. Russia

• Olga A. Korotina. Far Eastern Federal University. Vladivostok. Russia

The article examines the ability of a person to speak, which refers to the pre-linguistic and supra-linguistic reality of the subject. A person forms a message both for himself and for the Other.The authors ask themselves the question, from what place does a person speak, whether there are face-forming organs that are predominantly involved in the formation of humanity. The authors introduce the concept of a "partial object", referring to Lacan's psychoanalysis. A "partial object" or a small one, but – the nose, lips, eyelids, chin, etc. can become a source or focus of affect – pleasure, desire, hatred, jealousy, aggression, etc. A partial object cannot become the core of unity, integrity, but only the content of multiplicity, infantile, unstable, inert. It is necessary to distinguish between a face as an organism that is given to man by nature, and expresses the beginnings of the race, blood and soil, and an individualized face, in which the subject insists on himself as something special. The authors note that cinema has made a decisive contribution to the recognition and understanding of how a face speaks, not what is contained in the face, but how the message is formed. In the cinema, such facial formation strategies as close-up, face-affect, facial profile, and dividing the face are implemented. References are given to the directorial works of Bonuel, Bergman, Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov, Tarkovsky and others.
Keywords: generic face, individual face, face formation in cinema.