The Otherness Of Self Hypothesis

"The otherness of self"hypothesis proposes the new self understanding. This hypothesis is based on the studying about theory hypothesis'insufficiency and the limitation foundation premise existed in western psychology.First, it is the necessary to elaborate the main self concept of the traditional philosophy, it is necessary to expound the main fundamental research of self since the birth of western psychology, it is necessary to introduce the recently development tendency of self research in western psychology.The question origin is mainly on the western psychological self-research which has the inherent limitation and insufficiency, but these limits is just the result of the western traditional philosophy and the modern epistemology philosophy thought pattern in any sense. In self research, these limitations displayed in western psychological studies are subject-object dualism tendency; autonomy,independent,free,separated self model, and the tendency which equated self with cognition, equated self with reason.The main theory background of the"otherness of self"hypothesis are the proposing of inter-subjectivity theory in modern western philosophy, as well as 1980s cultural psychology regarding self difference research results influence. The fundamental research influence biggest take Husserl as between representative's phenomenology movement. Husserl,Heidegger and Sartre'theory all have the important significance. Since the 1980s cultural psychology research, has broken the western psychology independent,autonomy,free from otherËŠmonads self myth, which enables the new angle to know self, which enables new angle to inquire into self becomes possible.