Book Chapter

The Growth and Loss of the Impulsive Self

ROBERT KEGAN

2009

نظرة عامة

In the last chapter we looked closely at a major transformation in personality development, one which seems to occur roughly between nine and twenty-one months, and which leaves the person at its end somehow different in fundamental ways. These differences, I have suggested, are a matter of evolution, of the changing relationship of the organism to the “life-surround.” The differences are not so much “in” the baby as in the very state of his relationship to his world, including his relationship to us. The differences we experience in our relationship to a growing person have much to do with the

• الناشر: Harvard University Press
• ISBN: 9780674272316, 0674272315