The subjective awareness of one’s true self is considered a fundamental aspect of authenticity. It is theorized to reflect an experienced disconnect between one’s conscious awareness and actual experiences. In this brief review, I describe some of the early theorizing on the construct and the research that this theorizing has inspired. I then review an emerging direction of research specifically focused on the relationship between subjective feelings of being disconnected from one’s true self and tendencies to become mentally detached from present experience (i.e., mindwandering). This work offers new insights into the nature of subjective true self-awareness; it elucidates for the first time how disruptions to people’s ongoing mental connection to present experience relate to the experience of true self-awareness and it invites theorizing about aspects of authenticity in ways that do not require evaluations of a self-concept. I end the review by speculating on how this work might inspire new empirical and theoretical directions in the psychological study of authenticity and feelings of true self-awareness.

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各种自觉经验和一个人的“真实”自我的主观意识

对一个人真实自我的主观意识被认为是真实性的基本方面。从理论上讲，它反映了一个人的意识和实际经验之间的经验脱节。在这篇简短的评论中，我描述了一些关于结构的早期理论以及该理论所启发的研究。然后，我回顾了一个新兴的研究方向，该研究方向特别关注与真实的自我脱节的主观感觉与在心理上脱离当前经验的倾向（即流浪）之间的关系。这项工作提供了对主观真实自我意识本质的新见解；它首次阐明了人们与当前经验之间持续的心理联系的中断如何与真实的自我意识的经验相关，并邀请人们以不需要评估自我概念的方式对真实性进行理论化。最后，我通过推测这项工作如何在真实性和真实自我意识的心理学研究中激发新的经验和理论方向来结束本综述。