The Crisis And Reconstruction Of Self Identity In Modern Society

The self identity crisis isn't a new word to the modem society. Selfidentity in the traditional society was mainly decided by the given rank and group,which took on great stability. Therefore people seldom felt the crisis who live in thetraditional society. Till the modern society, the framework and mode didn't exist nowwhich supported psychological security for people who lived in the traditional society.The modern society has already been different from all past social order. The modernsociety has completely changed the essence of daily life, which has impacted the mostpersonalization aspects during the people's experience. The changes of daily life inmodern society have mingled with the individual life, even with ego, in a direct way. Itstampeded into require people to pay out their whole faith that the old traditions that leftby bygone days and all kinds of new ideals. Which one should people choose? Theappearance of the self identity crisis is unpreventable, the cause of which mainly comesfrom the society. The individual's existence has been divided into two half by anabsolute opposition. At the same time, it has made self lose definition that the separatedtime and space comes from giobalization. Then it has reinforced self to feel weak thatauthority, expert system and the value diversity, which has hindered self-identitycontinuity. The rise of consumption culture even made self lose independent thoughts.The withering of public fields has multiplied the narcissism culture. For that, a lot oftheorists tried to retrieve or relieve the crisis from different ways. For example, AnthonyGiddens thought that the rise of life political is benefit to relieve the crisis. Taylor. Cconsidered that it contributed to resolve the crisis to reconstruct a substantial virtue.Jurgen Habermas point out that cause of the crisis was lack of a kind of rationalcollective identity. These methods which they provided have great significant for thequestion, but they have their own insufficient. This paper tried to reconstruct an idealpersonality mode with Marx Human Philosophy, which maybe can help to solve thecrisis. At the same time, the pages tried to find out a series of practical methods to solvethe crisis.