Cu Lucian Blaga spre tainițele sufletului românesc
With Lucian Blaga, towards the vaults of the Romanian soul

Summary/Abstract: The following study is an examination of Lucian Blaga’s concept of “categories of the unconscious” or, in quasi-Kantian terms, the transcendental categories that belong to the subject in itself (“Subjekt an sich selbst”). These constitute a profound layer of the soul. The unconscious is not only a warehouse for the residues of conscious life, but rather an alter-ego of said consciousness, of whose contents we find out thanks to the phenomenon of “personance” (per-sounding). The study brings into discussion the way in which Blaga thinks we access the categories of the unconscious, which are, in turn, structured on two levels (or steps): a sensory one (sensations, perceptions, representations) and a thinking (noetic) one. The latter is composed of notions, judgments and inferences. Blaga speaks only of notions, especially of their various types that he calls “abyssal categories”.

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