Description: Ego and the Dynamic Ground : A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development, Paperback by Washburn, Michael, ISBN 0791422569, ISBN-13 9780791422564, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, th maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. Washburn formulates an important paradigm for transpersonal psychology and clearly distinguishes it from the other major paradigm in the field, the structural-hierarchical paradigm of Ken Wilber.
In Washburns view, human development is a spiral movement played out between the ego and its ultimate source: the Dynamic Ground. Ego development in the first half of life moves in a direction away from the Dynamic Ground; ego transcendence in the second half of life spirals back to the Ground on the way to a higher union with the Ground—whole-psyche integration.
Washburns spiral paradigm helps explain why human development has the character of a journey of departure and higher return, of setting out into the world and then finding ones way "home."
This new edition more effectively integrates key psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas by placing them within a developmental framework that resolves their contradictions. Washburns paradigm stresses both the biological roots and the spiritual potentialities of the psyche and is sensitive to the ambivalences, dualisms, transvaluations, and higher syntheses of life.
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Edition: 2
Book Title: Ego and the Dynamic Ground : a Transpersonal Theory of Human Development
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Topic: General, Personality
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 1995
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Psychology
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Author: Michael Washburn
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
