The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

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The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

Written by Michael Washburn
4.85 35,158 ratings
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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, the book 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 Washburn's 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.Washburn's 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 one's way "home."This new edition more effectively integrates key psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas by placing them within a developmental framework that resolves their contradictions. Washburn's 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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Language Eng
Published December, 1987
ISBN 477061
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Michael Washburn is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Michael Washburn can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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