Postmodern Personality: Ontological Self-dependance

Abstract

The article focuses on the triggers of ontological dependence as well as elucidates the construction / deconstruction of being by contemporary humans from the perspective of self-dependence. As a result, the real identity is substituted by simulacra and simulation in their different forms: avatars, images, masks in virtual reality. In view of this, ontological self-dependence cannot have any grounding because the identity serves as its basis. A paradoxical situation has come about with respect to the growth of irrationality, which testifies to the unreasonableness of technological society in which even a rational and appropriate idea turns into irrational one. It makes humans trespass the boundaries of space and time, which leads to their addiction to modern technologies. It should be mentioned that the concept of ontological self-dependence is a very urgent topic. It is associated with the implication of various meanings apart from those ones discussed in this paper. The recognition of the plasticity of the subjectivity seems to be important from the perspective of heuristics. The subjectivity seeks to be adequate to informational society and “the flowing present” (Z. Bauman) with low social dependence and the freedom of choice, with the feeling of social rootedness and at the same time the freedom to be whatever they want to be. Being self-dependent, such a personality manifests itself in the destruction of social fabric as a total representation and makes this fabric discrete, which allows the personality to regain the wholeness of ontological being both in the society and culture.