Washburn Recentering the Self

A Defense of the Ego
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9468-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Washburn, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I: RETHINKING THE NOTION OF THE EGO

1. The Birth of the Ego: Descartes’s “Thing That Thinks”

2. Before the Ego: Greek Philosophy, Christian Doctrine, and the New Physics of the Seventeenth Century

3. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage One: From Descartes to the End of the Nineteenth Century

4. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage Two: The Twentieth Century

5. The Ego’s Self-System and Lifeworld

PART II: RETHINKING EGO DEVELOPMENT

6. The First Four Weeks

7. Infancy

8. Early Toddling

9. Late Toddling and the Preschool Years

10. Middle Childhood

11. Adolescence

12. Early Adulthood

13. Midlife

14. Retirement

15. Old Age

PART III: RETHINKING THE EGO’S ROLE IN SPIRITUAL LIFE

16. Spiritual Preawakening

17. Spiritual Awakening

18. Spiritual Growth

19. Spiritual Maturity

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Washburn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World, The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development, and Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective, all published by SUNY Press.