Psychological Characteristic Phases and Society: Psychological Life and Theoretical Physics

This paper proposes a new theory of psychological life, using theoretical physics as a model methodology, and specifically discusses five characteristic phases of psychological life. The first is the embrace phase. The psychological characteristic of this phase is certainty and a sense of security, depicted by Newtonian mechanics. The second is the contradiction phase. The psychological characteristic of this phase is the entanglement and conflict between ideals and reality, illustrated by the debate over remote quantum entanglement and local causality in quantum mechanics and special relativity. The third is the re-entry phase. The psychological characteristic of this phase is integrating ideals and reality, recognizing personal conditions and individual differences, and re-facing society. This is first depicted by the proper time and momentum cone in special relativity, and then by the conceptual part of gauge field theory. Note: Quantum field theory is an integration of special relativity and quantum mechanics. The fourth is the civic phase. The psychological characteristic of this phase is the psychologized commitment to the structure of the external environment, illustrated by the dynamic analysis and symmetry groups in gauge field theory. The fifth is the sentiment phase. The psychological characteristic of this phase demonstrates the equivalence principle between the geometric description and algebraic description of psychological gravity, depicted by general relativity. The inequality of psychological advantages makes the psychosocial space curved, and the Pareto improvement of psychological welfare is the curvature of the psychosocial space. The introduction of this paper provides a general statement on the subject and lists 14 phases in the psychological life. followed by five sections that introduce the above-mentioned five fundamental psychological characteristic phases. The seventh section offers general discussions. We argue that psychological life shares certain structures with nature and can be modeled by applying theoretical physics.