惟我与无我:中西方自我观比较新解

Self-only and No-Self:A New View on Self Differences between Chinese and Western Cultures

该文从自我意识发展的轨迹来诠释中西方自我观的差异。认为从自我意识发展的动态过程来看,中西方自我处于不同的发展阶段:西方心理学将自我视为精神发展的核心,是"惟我"的;中国人文主义心理学则认为执着于自我将阻碍个体发展,心理发展的最高境界是对自我的超越,因而是"无我"的。自我研究方法的差异,表现为寻找自我实体的西方实证方法与可以深入自我背后本源的东方式禅定。

The article interprets the self differences between Chinese and western cultures from the developmental track of self- awareness. Considering the dynamic process of the development of self - awareness, the self was on the different stage to Chinese and western cultures： In western psychology, self is actually ＂self- only＂ which is considered as the core of spiritual development; while in Chinese Humanistic Psychology, self is equal to ＂no - self＂ by arguing that over - emphasizing self will block Individual - developing and self - transcendence is the highest realm of psychological development. The differences about the self- study methods between Chinese and western cultures were described as the western empirical which is to seek the self- entity and the oriental Zen - meditation which can embed the root of the self.