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Images of Circular Time and Spiral Repetition: The Generative Life Cycle Model

Kyoto University, Japan

Yoshinobu Kato

Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

The purpose of this article is to propose the Generative Life Cycle Model (GLCM) in two versions. The ecological version of the GLCM focuses on the cyclical images of successive generations beyond an individual’s life and death within ecological contexts. The spiral version of the GLCM is represented by the repeated spirals with variants, and is characterized by the multiple time concepts and the generative processes of life and death. The linear time concept, represented as a horizontal arrow, reflects an individual’s life characterized by a single stream of time from birth to death. Certainly, each individual is unique and can never be reproduced. Nevertheless, people can image and narrate stories in which their lives are regarded as being reproducible. These life stories based on repetition, reproduction, recovery and renewal have significant meanings for generative connections from past generations to future generations, and for the imaginations of continuities of multiple human lives within different historical eras

Key Words: generation • life and death • life cycle • life story • spiral model • time concept

Culture & Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 2, 143-160 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X06064575


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