Recentering the Self
A Defense of the Ego
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2023
534 pages
978-1-4384-9468-5 (ISBN)
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Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 6
Total Illustrations: 6
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978-1-4384-9468-5 (9781438494685)
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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.
Content
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
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
