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Paul Marko's: Mindful Enedavors (961 words) |
 | Ego development, as defined by Jane Loevinger, who developed a model to illustrate human personality development, consists of the changes in mental processes put in place by the self or ego (one's self-image or sense of being) to make coherent meaning of what is happening as it experiences day-to-day life. |
| Loevinger's model consists of eight levels ranging from the Impulsive stage which normally occurs early in life to the Integrated stage which is reached in life only by a very few individuals. |
| Loevinger, herself, hesitated to perform this further delineation of stages because she contended that there were too few individuals operating at this level to study. |
| Freud’s Three Theoretical Phases or Paradigms according to Loevinger (3308 words) |
| Loevinger’s own significant contribution to personality theory — her conception of ego development (1976) and her highly reliable psychometric test for stages of ego development — was firmly grounded in psychoanalytic theory (and cognitive developmentalism), and in particular draws upon Freud’s later theories on the differentiation and development of the ego. |
| Loevinger concedes that Freud himself probably never gave up the drive paradigm in favour of the new one, which she identifies as the ego paradigm. |
| Loevinger gave as an example the case of a little boy who wants to hit his brother, but is confronted by his father, who stops him. |
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