{"product_id":"recentering-the-self-a-defense-of-the-ego-hardcover","title":"Recentering the Self: A Defense of the Ego - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Washburn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRecentering the Self\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Washburn presents a new account of the ego, ego development, and the role of the ego in spiritual life. He starts by tracing the premodern antecedents of the notion of the ego in Greek philosophy and Christian theology and then explains the seventeenth-century emergence of the notion in Descartes's radically new account of the soul's relation to the body. Reviewing subsequent criticisms of the notion, the author formulates a revised conception of the ego that highlights the ego's inherently two-sided nature, as a subject and agency that, although rooted within interior consciousness, lives originally and primarily in the material, social world. Washburn uses this revised conception of the ego to explain how the two sides of the ego develop in concert over major stages of the human lifespan and why the ego, despite widespread belief to the contrary, plays primarily a positive role in spiritual life. \u003ci\u003eRecentering the Self\u003c\/i\u003e makes important contributions to the history of philosophy, consciousness studies, phenomenology, developmental psychology, and spiritual or transpersonal psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Washburn \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmbodied Spirituality in a Sacred World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTranspersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 534\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50344974811373,"sku":"9781438494678","price":177.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/lPpc91J2qM9781438494678.webp?v=1785197307","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/recentering-the-self-a-defense-of-the-ego-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}