https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2015.339
Psychic development: peculiarities of childhood or a constantly evolving process?
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The Author briefly retraces the history of psychoanalytic thought on psychological development, highlighting some epistemic assumptions underlying it. He then introduces the concept of "emergency" as an internal construct of the theories of dynamic and non-linear complex systems and then the point of view of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought with particular reference to the theory of the punctuated equilibriums of Gould and Elderidge. From this emerges an original synthesis through which we can look at the psychological development, not only of the child but of the single subject throughout the whole life span.
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