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Author(s)
ZHU Mao-ling
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2018.07.004
Affiliation(s)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
ABSTRACT
This paper makes a
comparative study of the theory of heavenly principles and human desires in the
Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties and the theory of personality
structure in psychoanalytic theory. From the perspective of the construction of
the subject, in the debate between the heavenly principle and the human desire,
the person is built into the moral subject. The id, ego, and super-ego in the
psychoanalytic theory constitute the unconscious structural subject. In the
framework of these two theories, the “maintain the heavenly principles and
eradicate human desires” and “the heavenly principles exist in desire” in the
theory of heavenly principles and human desires express the unity of opposites
between heavenly principles and human desire. The core of personality structure
theory is the relationship of obedience and control among the id, ego, and
super-ego. As far as the value orientation is concerned, the debate between the
heavenly principle and the human desire provides a theoretical basis for the
moral practice of Confucianism of “aim at absolute perfection”, while the free
will of the id in the unconscious subject is the most essential ethical aspect
of psychoanalysis.
KEYWORDS
heavenly principles, human desire, personality structure, moral practice, free will
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