The Taiji Model of Self: Proposition Background and Core Points(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2022年02期
- Page:
- 53-64
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- Title:
- The Taiji Model of Self: Proposition Background and Core Points
- Author(s):
- WANG Fengyan
- Keywords:
- Taiji model of self; Taiji model of Confucian self; Taiji model of Taoist self; Taiji Model of Buddhist self; Taiji Model of self based on the independent self and interdependent self
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- Abstract:
- Currently there are five influential models regarding the self in the Chinese culture: Hong’s bicultural self theory; Lu Luo’s Composite self; Yang Kuo-Shu’s Four-Part Theory of the Chinese self; Yang’s model of self; and Hwang Kwang-Kwo’s Mandala Model of self. Insightful as they are, these five models need further development based on the three criteria for judging the cultural ecological validity of the models. Accordingly, based on my studies, here I propose a new self-model, which is inspired by both the Taiji diagram in the Chinese culture, and the self-models in literature. Specifically, from the perspective of psychoanalysis, the diagram for western personality structure is a three-dimensional structure like a sandwich, and the Western self is mainly a monastic independent self from the perspective of cultural psychology. Inspired by these theories, I propose that the diagram for Chinese personality structure is neither an interdependent self that takes inspiration from monadism, nor a three-dimensional structure like a sandwich; instead, deeply influenced by the Yin-Yang dualism, the diagram for Chinese self-structure is a Taiji diagram like a pie. The largest circle outside(Taiji)refers to self, and the Yin and Yang inside refers to the specific pairs of self-concepts that are formed by integrating the Chinese traditional culture(e. g., Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism)and Western culture. This Taiji model reflects that the majority of Chinese self is polycultural in contemporary China, vividly represents the four main types of Chinese self as the result of a fusion of cultures, and provides a solid theoretical framework for subsequent empirical research on Chinese’s self-cultivation process and self-expression methods.
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