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Ego ontogenesis and human behavior / Kenneth Jerold Comfort.
LIBRA BF175.5.E35 C66 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Comfort, Kenneth Jerold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ego (Psychology).
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised, [Second edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Cohoes, N.Y. : Public Administration Institute of New York State, 2007.
- Contents:
- The ego and primordial life
- The ego and post primordial life
- Adolescence
- Young adulthood
- Middle adulthood
- Old age and death
- Careers
- The power of praise
- Mastery
- Fantasies and ego ontogenesis
- Play during ego ontogenesis
- Entertainment during ego ontogenesis
- Patterns of socializing during ego ontogenesis
- Ego ontogenesis and the marketplace
- Ego ontogenesis and citizenship
- Parenting and ego ontogenesis
- The problem of self-discipline
- Religious faith
- Reality
- Determinism in the patterns of ego tension reduction
- Purpose in human behavior
- Closing comment
- The unthinkable hypothesis : an essay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-367) and index.
- 2nd ed. "includes a substantial additional section in the form of an essay entitled The Unthinkable Hypothesis..."--p. iv
- ISBN:
- 096591447X
- 9780965914475
- OCLC:
- 175232516
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