Designed to pilot a particular technique for eliciting imaginative constructions centered on the ... more Designed to pilot a particular technique for eliciting imaginative constructions centered on the microcomputer, this exploratory study used a "projective" type method with a game format that required group performance. Stadents in a mixed class of 83 graduate students enrolled in a course on social thought were directed to generate multiple fantasy narratives around computer use. To do this, each student was given a sheet of paper with the first line of a story--"Norman (or Jane) sat down at the computer"--and instructed to write the next line of the story. The sheets were then folded in such a way that only the last sentence written was visible and passed down four seats to the left. As the students received the next sheet, they added another sentence and this procedure was repeated until the completed stories averaged 6 to 7 lines in length. Analyses of the data to identify and illustrate qualitative themes and patterns in the stories found the predominant them...
Ego psychology represents a dominant paradigm in the study of personality. However, it is a confu... more Ego psychology represents a dominant paradigm in the study of personality. However, it is a confusing tradition, embracing a number of different schools of thought. One could point to at least two distinct European varieties, linked with the names of Jung and Anna Freud, and as many as three North American branches, associated with the following figures: Hartmann, Rapaport, and Nunberg; Allport, Murray, Ausubel, and White; and Sullivan and Erikson.
... Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Loevinger,... more ... Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Loevinger, Jane. Author: Blasi, Augusto. PUBLISHER: Jossey-Bass Publishers (San Francisco). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1976. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0875892752 ). ...
Abstract The tracking behavior of infants up to 5 months of age was studied, using linear and cir... more Abstract The tracking behavior of infants up to 5 months of age was studied, using linear and circular trajectories, with partial occlusion of the trajectories. Results indicate that it is not until the age of about 16 weeks that infants can be said to be tracking a moving object as an object.
It is now almost five years since the appearance of Carol Gilligan’s book on women’s moral develo... more It is now almost five years since the appearance of Carol Gilligan’s book on women’s moral development, In a Dzffeyent Voice. in this accessible volume of interlinked essays, Gilligan sketched a critique of psychology’s tendency to conceive the life cycle in male terms. She upbraided psychologists, especially developmentalists and in particular Lawrence Kohlberg, for turning a deaf ear to how the other half lives. Although it was not Gilligan’s intent to impugn the character or intelligence of the great developmental theorists, her writing has served to draw attention to the fact that the disproportionate representation of men among that group may not be entirely a coincidence. A critical audience, then, especially among women, is coming to reconsider the scientific “discoveries” about human development in relation to the gender-specific context in which such discovering has traditionally taken place. Gilligan’s work marks a special case of the more general criticism (see, for example, Keller, 1985) of the notion that science is conducted from a neutral, ungendered standpoint. In the moral domain, the equivalent notion is captured in the formalism of the “original position”,described by liberal ethical philosophers such as John Rawls. Gathering from its extraordinary commercial success and the widespread discussion that it has generated, Gilligan’s book must have struck a deep psychological chord. Men and women outside academe and clinical practice as well as male and female scholars from virtually every discipline have become involved in such discussion. This breadth of concern and the lively nature of the debate suggest that recent preoccupation of the discipline and profession of psychology with issues of maleness and femaleness (see, for example, the Summer 1986 issue of Psychotherufiy) may be more than contingent intellectual fashion. Rather, it seems likely that the preoccupation represents a particularly salient point at which contemporary psychology interdigitates with large scale societal transformations in the relations between the sexes, between authority and women, and in the fabric of the family. The renewed interest in the nature of men and women, in the concrete dynamics of their relationships, and in the increasing tension between the cultural forms of “masculinity” and “femininity” may well represent a significant accomplishment of feminism as a social movement. The current quest for an understanding of gender is not kntirely original. Freud and his colleagues, faced not only with the early emancipatory efforts of
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1977
... 6 Riegel, "Dialectical Operations of Cognitive Development"; and Walsh, "Jean ... more ... 6 Riegel, "Dialectical Operations of Cognitive Development"; and Walsh, "Jean Piaget." Dialectical logic is ... Telos (in press); and JM Broughton and KF Riegel, "Developmental Psychology and the Self ... 20 Turner, "Piaget's Structuralism"; and Blasi, "The Concept of Personality in ...
In recent years, a cognitive-developmental approach to psychology has grown out of the work of De... more In recent years, a cognitive-developmental approach to psychology has grown out of the work of Dewey, Baldwin, Piaget, Mead, and Kohlberg. Despite difficulties of both a theoretical and an empirical nature, this approach has matured to a point where it rivals psychoanalytic theory in scope. Although it is a general psychology of development, recent post-Piagetian work has permitted the emergence of a specific theory of adolescent phenomena.
Certain unconscious, dynamic characteristics of modern warfare are illustrated in heightened form... more Certain unconscious, dynamic characteristics of modern warfare are illustrated in heightened form in the recent Gulf War. The mainstream psychology of war fails to illuminate such dynamics since it is invested in concealing the intense pleasures afforded by warfare. In wartime, actual violence becomes confounded with graphic fantasies of bodily injury and mutilation. This imagery evokes a generic complex of emotional ambivalence-of fascination and dread-found to be active in pacifism as well as militarism. The transgressions of war are socially sanctified and so provide the peculiar ecstasy of legitimate profanation. At the same time, war heightens the felt connection between fantasies of terror, omnipotent grandeur, and sublime surrender. Masochistic submission and self-mutilation are tied to outright sadism, revealing the indiscriminate form that “force” takes in psychotic destructiveness.
Designed to pilot a particular technique for eliciting imaginative constructions centered on the ... more Designed to pilot a particular technique for eliciting imaginative constructions centered on the microcomputer, this exploratory study used a "projective" type method with a game format that required group performance. Stadents in a mixed class of 83 graduate students enrolled in a course on social thought were directed to generate multiple fantasy narratives around computer use. To do this, each student was given a sheet of paper with the first line of a story--"Norman (or Jane) sat down at the computer"--and instructed to write the next line of the story. The sheets were then folded in such a way that only the last sentence written was visible and passed down four seats to the left. As the students received the next sheet, they added another sentence and this procedure was repeated until the completed stories averaged 6 to 7 lines in length. Analyses of the data to identify and illustrate qualitative themes and patterns in the stories found the predominant them...
Ego psychology represents a dominant paradigm in the study of personality. However, it is a confu... more Ego psychology represents a dominant paradigm in the study of personality. However, it is a confusing tradition, embracing a number of different schools of thought. One could point to at least two distinct European varieties, linked with the names of Jung and Anna Freud, and as many as three North American branches, associated with the following figures: Hartmann, Rapaport, and Nunberg; Allport, Murray, Ausubel, and White; and Sullivan and Erikson.
... Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Loevinger,... more ... Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Loevinger, Jane. Author: Blasi, Augusto. PUBLISHER: Jossey-Bass Publishers (San Francisco). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1976. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0875892752 ). ...
Abstract The tracking behavior of infants up to 5 months of age was studied, using linear and cir... more Abstract The tracking behavior of infants up to 5 months of age was studied, using linear and circular trajectories, with partial occlusion of the trajectories. Results indicate that it is not until the age of about 16 weeks that infants can be said to be tracking a moving object as an object.
It is now almost five years since the appearance of Carol Gilligan’s book on women’s moral develo... more It is now almost five years since the appearance of Carol Gilligan’s book on women’s moral development, In a Dzffeyent Voice. in this accessible volume of interlinked essays, Gilligan sketched a critique of psychology’s tendency to conceive the life cycle in male terms. She upbraided psychologists, especially developmentalists and in particular Lawrence Kohlberg, for turning a deaf ear to how the other half lives. Although it was not Gilligan’s intent to impugn the character or intelligence of the great developmental theorists, her writing has served to draw attention to the fact that the disproportionate representation of men among that group may not be entirely a coincidence. A critical audience, then, especially among women, is coming to reconsider the scientific “discoveries” about human development in relation to the gender-specific context in which such discovering has traditionally taken place. Gilligan’s work marks a special case of the more general criticism (see, for example, Keller, 1985) of the notion that science is conducted from a neutral, ungendered standpoint. In the moral domain, the equivalent notion is captured in the formalism of the “original position”,described by liberal ethical philosophers such as John Rawls. Gathering from its extraordinary commercial success and the widespread discussion that it has generated, Gilligan’s book must have struck a deep psychological chord. Men and women outside academe and clinical practice as well as male and female scholars from virtually every discipline have become involved in such discussion. This breadth of concern and the lively nature of the debate suggest that recent preoccupation of the discipline and profession of psychology with issues of maleness and femaleness (see, for example, the Summer 1986 issue of Psychotherufiy) may be more than contingent intellectual fashion. Rather, it seems likely that the preoccupation represents a particularly salient point at which contemporary psychology interdigitates with large scale societal transformations in the relations between the sexes, between authority and women, and in the fabric of the family. The renewed interest in the nature of men and women, in the concrete dynamics of their relationships, and in the increasing tension between the cultural forms of “masculinity” and “femininity” may well represent a significant accomplishment of feminism as a social movement. The current quest for an understanding of gender is not kntirely original. Freud and his colleagues, faced not only with the early emancipatory efforts of
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1977
... 6 Riegel, "Dialectical Operations of Cognitive Development"; and Walsh, "Jean ... more ... 6 Riegel, "Dialectical Operations of Cognitive Development"; and Walsh, "Jean Piaget." Dialectical logic is ... Telos (in press); and JM Broughton and KF Riegel, "Developmental Psychology and the Self ... 20 Turner, "Piaget's Structuralism"; and Blasi, "The Concept of Personality in ...
In recent years, a cognitive-developmental approach to psychology has grown out of the work of De... more In recent years, a cognitive-developmental approach to psychology has grown out of the work of Dewey, Baldwin, Piaget, Mead, and Kohlberg. Despite difficulties of both a theoretical and an empirical nature, this approach has matured to a point where it rivals psychoanalytic theory in scope. Although it is a general psychology of development, recent post-Piagetian work has permitted the emergence of a specific theory of adolescent phenomena.
Certain unconscious, dynamic characteristics of modern warfare are illustrated in heightened form... more Certain unconscious, dynamic characteristics of modern warfare are illustrated in heightened form in the recent Gulf War. The mainstream psychology of war fails to illuminate such dynamics since it is invested in concealing the intense pleasures afforded by warfare. In wartime, actual violence becomes confounded with graphic fantasies of bodily injury and mutilation. This imagery evokes a generic complex of emotional ambivalence-of fascination and dread-found to be active in pacifism as well as militarism. The transgressions of war are socially sanctified and so provide the peculiar ecstasy of legitimate profanation. At the same time, war heightens the felt connection between fantasies of terror, omnipotent grandeur, and sublime surrender. Masochistic submission and self-mutilation are tied to outright sadism, revealing the indiscriminate form that “force” takes in psychotic destructiveness.
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