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The Cultural Production Of Personality

Posted on:2008-02-14Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360215479091Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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This article explains personality problem from culture point of view. It regards interactional mechanism between culture and personality as its point making basis, personality conversion of the subject as its stand. Combining with merits of era and demand of social development, it explores influence of culture on personality structure, elements and exhibition from comparison and analysis between Chinese and western cultures. Through explanations to personality problems in many-dimensions, it discovers a new path to achieve modern conversion of Chinese personality and molding of ideal personality.The part 1 is an introduction. The definition of personality from culture point of view is: personality is an individual existent appearance and state under specific culture condition. Personality is in fact a kind of cultural personality, that is to say: it refers to the stable psychological structure and way of behavior after internalization of specific culture and individual socialization when individual is receiving some specific culture. The research on culture and personality started in western countries in 1920s and 1930s, from 1950s, 1960s, the research has a new development and process more from focusing on culture main body; after 1990s, research field of culture and personality has taken on a trend of multi-aspects, interdisplinary; changing single research mold, during the process of seeping with other relevant branches of learning, integrating existent research result with tolerant theory has become the future trend of this research.The part 2 is about connotation explanation of personality and its history evolution. Personality, as a target scope of branch of learning, is concerned by many branches of learning. From the evolution of western personality definition, personality connotation with Chinese characteristics and different definition of various branches of learning on personality, they haven't broken away from the thread of personality is the product of culture all the time. Personality is a kind of cultural personality in nature. It has features as wholeness, subject, stability, harmoniousness and uniqueness, etc; meanwhile, personality, as a history category, will change with social and historical conditions. The continuation and development of society will surely demand its members to form some kind of personality. Attaching personality in natural economy society, independent personality in commodity economy and free personality in the future communism society will all change and develop with social and historical conditions.The part 3 discusses the producing of culture and personality. The nature of culture is personification. The reason why human beings are existing as themselves is that they have formed fundamental difference with animals. Human being is the existence of culture while culture is the fundamental property, and personality is cultural existing way of human beings. Personality is mainly molded by culture. It is the appearance and state of culture creating activity of human beings. From the aspect of culture: the formation of personality has its corresponding cultural mechanism, psychological mechanism, social mechanism and practice mechanism; from the aspect of socialism: choosing is the key mechanism of personality formation, individual forms its own personality through choosing, the socialism process of human beings is a process of double choosing between culture and human beings, while the unitary process of individualism and socialism of human beings is a process of personification of human beings; from culture and philosophy point of view: the final formation of personality will achieve through practice. Human beings break through their natural existence and receive their cultural existence through practice. The uniform of practice and culture, individualism and socialism of human beings will only achieve through practice.The part 4 is about Chinese traditional personality ideas and their influence on personality types. Chinese traditional culture has deep influence on the personality of Chinese, different culture ideas formed personality appearance and state with a variety of characteristics. Dividing from sects of ideas: the Confucian School, Taoist School and Mohism have with their own merits and formed their own ideas about personality; from the aspect of content: Chinese traditional ideas about personality include ideal idea about personality, idea of equal personality, idea of independent personality and idea of personality educating; seeing from the design of ideal personality: the Confucian School, Taoist School and Mohism all highly praise the ideal personality of saint inside and monarch outside, saint personality and virtue personality have become ideal personality mold among Chinese during 2000 years, its personality consciousness and ideal are non-independent, without subject and selves. From the Opium War to modern times, the personality of Chinese started stepping from tradition to modern. Modern times in China is an era of unrest and reformation, it is also an era of fission and remold of personality from attaching form to independent form. The pursuit from attaching personality to independent personality is just the important mark for China to walk towards modernization.The part 5 comparisons and analysises of Chinese and Western ideas about personality. The difference on ideas and concept about personality between China and west countries contains in the cultural tradition of the two self made system. It is the reflection of the deepest value natural character and different way of thinking in Chinese and western cultural tradition. Uniform of god and human beings is the traditional doctrine of Chinese ideal personality, while most of westerners insist on contradictory between god and human beings; the Confucian School values moral principles of human beings, while westerners emphasize the ability of human beings; the evaluating yardstick of Chinese traditional ideal personality is valuing code of brotherhood and looking down upon benefit, while the value orientation is on the contrary; the self-cultivating method of Chinese tradition is the moral cultivation of inside self-questioning, while the one of west countries is from the outside to the inside, from the surface to the center, all the above shows the concept of personality difference between China and western countries, reflects the background of cultural system which each of them belongs to and influences personality concept of human beings in modern China and western countries. The comparison of personality prerequisite, consciousness and ideal personality in China and western countries explains the advantages and regrets of Chinese and western personality and promotes present personality conversing from traditional type to modern one.The part 6 is about personality conversion and remold in this changing period of Chinese modern culture. Constructing complete free and harmoniously developing modern personality is not only intrinsic demand of personality development, it is also an era need of building socialism harmonious society. During the period of socialism modernization construction of our country, the basis of independent personality has full formed, the feature, content, standard and yardstick of modern personality have formed their own regulations, modern personality is an example of the present society of our country and it is the concrete display of ideal personality mold in modern social personality. Modern conversion of personality is not abstract but concrete, therefore, to finish conversion and remold of personality, it must be achieved through modern display of traditional personality value, the generation of social mental temperament, interaction of self mold and culture environment and socialization mold mechanism of modern personality. Harmonious society expects harmonious personality which is on the one hand practice choosing of Marxism personality theory and on the other hand value realization of harmonious culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:personality, culture, personality conversion, modern personality, ideal personality
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