LEADER 04195nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910813807003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-25483-X 010 $a0-674-03941-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039414 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805692 035 $a(EBL)3300512 035 $a(OCoLC)923112131 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000151617 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151325 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151617 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10320166 035 $a(PQKB)11767247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318508 035 $a(DE-B1597)574623 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039414 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300512 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423574 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805692 100 $a19810720d1982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe evolving self $eproblem and process in human development /$fRobert Kegan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d1982 215 $a1 online resource (336 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-19408-0 311 0 $a0-674-27231-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-307) and index. 327 $aContents ; Prologue ; Part One: Evolutionary Truces ; One: The Unrecognized Genius of Jean Piaget ; Two: The Evolution of Moral Meaning-Making; Three: The Constitutions of the Self; Part Two: The Natural Emergencies of the Self; Four: The Growth and Loss of the Incorporative Self ; Five: The Growth and Loss of the Impulsive Self ; Six: The Growth and Loss of the Imperial Self ; Seven: The Growth and Loss of the Interpersonal Self ; Eight: The Growth and Loss of the Institutional Self ; Nine: Natural Therapy ; References; Index 330 $aThe Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems?the individual?s effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan, meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The Evolving Self describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail, concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and transition, its costs and disruptions as well as its triumphs. At the heart of our meaning-making activity, the book suggests, is the drawing and redrawing of the distinction between self and other. Using Piagetian theory in a creative new way to make sense of how we make sense of ourselves, Kegan shows that each meaning-making stage is a new solution to the lifelong tension between the universal human yearning to be connected, attached, and included, on the one hand, and to be distinct, independent, and autonomous on the other. The Evolving Self is the story of our continuing negotiation of this tension. It is a book that is theoretically daring enough to propose a reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex and clinically concerned enough to suggest a variety of fresh new ways to treat those psychological complaints that commonly arise in the course of development. Kegan is an irrepressible storyteller, an impassioned opponent of the health-and-illness approach to psychological distress, and a sturdy builder of psychological theory. His is an original and distinctive new voice in the growing discussion of human development across the life span. 606 $aDevelopmental psychology 606 $aPersonality change 606 $aSelf 606 $aMeaning (Psychology) 606 $aPsychotherapy 615 0$aDevelopmental psychology. 615 0$aPersonality change. 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aMeaning (Psychology) 615 0$aPsychotherapy. 676 $a155.2/5 700 $aKegan$b Robert$01195240 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813807003321 996 $aThe evolving self$94123511 997 $aUNINA