Confucian Self-psychology Research

Self is one of the most important topics in psychology, and in the traditional Chinese Confucianism, there were a lot of psychological thoughts about self. In the preface,the author introduces the reasons, significance and methods of the study of Confucian self psychology. In the part of literature review, the author summarized the Confucian view of self in the perspective of philosophy and the perspective of psychology. The main body of the thesis included three chapters. The first chapter introduced the economic foundation and the human nature foundation of the Confucian self production, and also introduced the social and cultural background of Confucius and Wang Yangming. The second chapter was divided into three parts, the first part discusses the Confucian view of self content, including (1) xiaowo? dawo? and no-self; (2) the inside and outside of self, that duzhi self and gongzhi self; the second part discusses the self realization, including the goal of self realization: Confucian sage, and the realization of the way, it was the Confucian gongfu. Finally, it was compared with the Western self view and the Buddhist self concept. The third chapter discussed the Enlightenment of Confucian view of self and prospects of the research on the day after.