时间向度下的自我变迁

时间观来自人类栖居其间的客观世界,塑造着人类的自我理解结构,作为行为主体的自我与时间相互依存。自然时间观、钟表时间观、网络时间观承接演化,是不同时代生存方式作用于人们意识之后的一种反映,这种反映反过来推动生成了三种不同的自我结构。在农业社会,自然界是影响时间观最重要的元素,自然界的周期变化生成了循环时间观;在工业社会,钟表精确地安排着社会活动的结构,个体在绵延不绝的直线时间里高度关注自我,主我精神得到鼓励;在网络社会,人的活动越来越符号化,在模糊了过去、现在与未来的电子符号世界里,缺乏参照对象的孤独个体正变得越来越焦虑。

The Evolving of Self-identity in the Time Dimension

The concept of time stems from the objective world which the human beings dwell in,shaping human’s structure of self-understanding. As the behavioral agent,self image and time depend on each other. The three psychological concepts of time,the concept of natural time,the concept of clock time,the concept of network time,substitute successively. They reflect the way of life of different times affecting people’s consciousness,which in turn promotes three different self-structures. In agricultural society,nature is the most important element affecting the concept of time. The cycle of nature generates circular time concept. In industrial society,watches precisely arrange the structure of social activities. The individuals are highly concerned about themselves in the endless linear time,self spirit being encouraged. In the network society,human activities are increasingly symbolized. In the electronic world that has blurred the past,present and future,the lonely individual lacking reference objects is becoming more anxious.