The linkage of heart and mind is the way of reproducing the integrity of the human being (on the materials of the art)

The article discusses the characteristics of emotional and rational aspects of personal identity. The focus is on a symbolic context of reproducing the integrity of the individual as the subject-matter of literary and philosophical reflection on the art based on J.-K. Guismans and O. A. Sedakova's texts. The author considers the symbolism of the Gothic cathedral and the synthesis of the emotional and the rational in poetry. The paper describes types of human integrity in the prism of methodology dating from M. Heidegger's ontology of gift.