Sublime

explored the conditions for individual development and growth, sustained by networks of mutual assistance and interdependence.

Parents define themselves by that role and are unconsciously afraid of loss of identity when they cease being parents.

This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just,

(The problem of education hinges on this point. If parents were more developed themselves and rested in their own center, the opposition between authoritarian and laissez-faire education would hardly exist. Needing this being-authority, the child reacts to it with great eagerness; on the other hand, the child rebels against pressure or neglect by

Et Hegel ajouta ensuite le point crucial, le point qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, définit toutes les théories postmodernes : le mental, le sujet, ne peut être conçu que comme s'étant développé.

The strength of our ego boundaries is the result of each properly resolved developmental crisis. JOHN BRADSHAW

Jean Piaget.

It is fundamentally impossible for a person to live life completely alone, and it is only in social contexts that the person becomes an “individual.”