Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self, 163–186 Copyright © 2006 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. 163 TIME, SELF, AND THE OTHER The Striving Tourist In Ladakh, North India A. GILLESPIE Alex Gillespie What is the relation between the dialogical, or social, self and the goal- directed self, and how might this relation be theorized? On the one hand there is a growing body of literature that has established the self as social and internally differentiated (e.g., Laing, 1960; Rowan & Cooper, 1999), or to paraphrase Hermans (2002), a “landscape” of I-positions which have their origin in the social world. On the other hand, the idea that the self is goal-directed is well established (Burke, 1969; James, 1878/1992; Wertsch, 1998). While the dialogical self literature draws upon a spatial metaphor of the self, the striving self literature draws upon a temporal metaphor of the self. The question is; what are the conceptual linkages between these two substantial strands of theory in cultural psychology? How can these two root metaphors, or themata (Holton, 1975), the spatial and the temporal, be combined? The present chapter contributes to the integration of these two traditions by showing how concepts relating to the social and dialogical nature of the self can be extended to account for CHAPTER 7