"The 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.
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