Emergence of Cyclical Psycho-social Identity: sustainability as "psyclically" defined

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The identity of individuals and collectivities (groups, organizations, etc) is typically associated with an entity bounded in physical space or virtual space. The boundary may be defined geographically (even with "virtual real estate") or by convention -- notably when a process of recognition is involved, as with a legal entity. Geopolitical boundaries may, for example, define nation states.

The focus here is on the extent to which many such entities are also to some degree, if not in large measure, defined by cycles in time. For example many organizations are defined by the periodicity of the statutory meetings by which they are governed, or by their budget or production cycles. Communities may be uniquely defined by conference cycles, religious cycles or festival cycles (eg Oberammergau). Biologically at least, the health and viability of individuals is defined by a multiplicity of cycles of which respiration is the most obvious -- death may indeed be defined by absence of any respiratory cycle.

This exploration follows from earlier investigations relating to time (Knowledge Gardening through Music: patterns of coherence for future African management as an alternative to Project Logic, 2000; Varieties of Experience of Past-Present-Future Complexes, 2001; Engaging Macrohistory through the Present Moment, 2004). The concern here is with the introduction of a temporal dimension into any understanding of "union" further to related concerns (In Quest of "Meta-Union"? Interplay of generic dimensions of any "union of international associations", 2007; Dynamic Reframing of "Union": implications for the coherence of knowledge, social organization and personal identity, 2007).

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