《一种想象的生活》的主体脉络，是主人公奥维德与自然相处模式的探索历程。经历了蜜月期、瓦解期以及重构期，奥维德最终依然没有逃脱死亡的命运。究其根源，奥维德囿于自我认知，缺乏对人与自然的相处之道的深度考量。“人与自然是生命共同体”是最高旨归，两者形成合力共同发展，才能达到褪却原始的重构和复归。

In An Imaginary Life, the protagonist Ovid explores in his journey of getting along with nature. After the honeymoon period, disintegration period and reconstruction period of getting along with nature, Ovid couldn't escape from his death. Ovid has always been confined to self-cognition, failing to realize that man and nature are nothing but a life community. Only by forming a joint force between the two sides and maintaining this life community can man and nature get along and develop, which is reconstruction and reversion in essence.