The ego and the dynamic ground

This revised edition draws on psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, and Eastern and Western spiritual sources to outline a spiral model of human development between the ego and the Dynamic Ground.

Ego development in the first half of life moves away from the Ground, while the second half spirals back toward higher union and psyche integration.

Washburn's dynamic-dialectical paradigm resolves contradictions in psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas, emphasizing biological roots, spiritual potentialities, ambivalences, and higher syntheses.