Chart 4: Self-Related Stages
Chart 4: Self-Related Stages
The largest of the appendix charts: fifteen researchers of self/ego development, spread across three sub-parts (4A, 4B, 4C in the source) and three different row spines — the familiar basic-structures spine (Loevinger, Broughton, Neumann, Cook-Greuter), Wilber's own numbered fulcrums F-1 through F-9 (Sullivan/Grant/Grant, Wade, Washburn, Erikson, Graves, Kegan — merged into one table below since both source pages use the identical fulcrum spine), and a third, coarser spine of Scheler's five "structural hardware" levels (Pascual-Leone, Jaspers, Steiner, Beck).
Transcribed and cross-checked against the source page images
(library/2000-integral-psychology-images/00028.jpg-00033.jpg); draft, not yet
independently verified by a second pass.
Loevinger and Broughton
Neither researcher's stages extend past vision-logic in the source — the table stops there rather than padding out with empty transpersonal rows.
| Level | Structure | Jane Loevinger (ego stages) | John Broughton (self epistemology) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Matter | — | — |
| Sensation | Presocial | ||
| Perception | Autistic | ||
| Exocept | — | ||
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | Symbiotic | |
| Image | — | ||
| Symbol | Impulsive | ||
| Rep-mind | Endocept | — | — |
| Concept | Self-protective | 0. Self "inside," reality "outside"; 1. Big-person mind, little-person body | |
| Conop | Rule/role, early | Conformist | 2. Naive subjectivism, mind and body differentiated |
| Rule/role, late | — | — | |
| Formop | (transition) | — | — |
| Formal, early | Conscientious-conformist | 3. Persona vs. inner self | |
| Formal, late | Conscientious | 4. Dualist or positivist, cynical, mechanistic | |
| Postformal | (transition) | Individualistic | 5. Inner observer, differentiated from ego |
| Vision-logic, early | Autonomous | 6. Mind and body experiences of an integrated self | |
| Vision-logic, middle | Integrated |
The fulcrums: Sullivan/Grant/Grant, Wade, Washburn, Erikson, Graves, and Kegan
Six researchers correlated against Wilber's own numbered fulcrums (F-1–F-9 + nondual) — the same spine as Chart 1. The source also brackets a "pre, pen, nondual (possible transcendental)" note around F-0, not tied to a specific theorist's column.
| Fulcrum | Sullivan, Grant, and Grant (self-integration) | Jenny Wade | Michael Washburn | Erik Erikson | Clare Graves (ego types) | Robert Kegan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-1 | — | 1. Reactive | Original embedment, bodyego | Trust vs. mistrust | 1. Autistic | 0. Incorporative |
| F-2 | 1. Differentiation of self & nonself | 2. Naive | Primal repression | Autonomy vs. shame & doubt | 2. Magical animistic | 1. Impulsive |
| F-3 | 2. Manipulative-demanding | 3. Egocentric | Mental ego | Initiative vs. guilt & anxiety | 3. Egocentric | 2. Imperial |
| F-4 | 3. Power: a. rules-"cons"; b. rules-conformist | 4. Conformist | — | Industry vs. inferiority | 4. Sociocentric | 3. Interpersonal |
| F-5 | 4. Early individuation; 5. Continuity; 6. Self-consistency | 5. Achievement/affiliative | — | Identity vs. role confusion; intimacy/isolation | 5. Multiplistic; 6. Relativistic/individualistic | 4. Formal-institutional |
| F-6 | 7. Relativity-integration | 6. Authentic | Regression; in service of transcendence | Generativity/stagnation; integrity/despair | 7. Systemic (integrated) | 5. Postformal-interindividual |
| F-7 | — | 7. Transcendent | Regeneration in spirit | — | — | — |
| F-8 | — | 8. Unitary | Integration | — | — | — |
| F-9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nondual | — | — | — | — | — | — |
The major self line and Neumann
Back to the basic-structures spine, correlated with Wilber's own frontal/ego, deeper-psychic/soul, and Witness-or-Self brackets, and Neumann's mythological and psychological stages.
| Level | Structure | Neumann (mythological stage) | Neumann (psychological stage) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Matter | Pleroma | Pleromatic |
| Sensation | Uroboros | Uroboric fusion | |
| Perception | — | Alimentary uroboros | |
| Exocept | — | Uroboric Mother | |
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | The Great Mother | Wish-fulfillment, magic |
| Image | — | Maternal incest | |
| Symbol | — | Bodyself narcissism | |
| Rep-mind | Endocept | Separation of the World Parents | Oedipus/Electra |
| Concept | Dragon fight | Conscious/unconscious | |
| Conop | Rule/role, early | Birth of the Hero | Overcoming instincts, emergence of ego |
| Rule/role, late | Slaying of Mother | Differentiation of anima | |
| Formop | Formal, early | Slaying of Father | Differentiation of animus |
| Formal, late | Captive and treasure | Mature ego | |
| Postformal | Vision-logic, early | Transformation | Ego/self |
| Vision-logic, middle | — | Integration |
Scheler, Pascual-Leone, Jaspers, Steiner, and Beck
A third, coarser spine — Scheler's five levels of "structural hardware" — with four more researchers banded against it rather than the full basic-structures spine.
| Scheler (structural hardware) | Pascual-Leone (ego development) | Karl Jaspers (existential-phenomenological reduction / meditative thinking) | Rudolph Steiner | Don Beck (Spiral Dynamics) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organismic survival | — | — | Physical body | 1. Instinctive |
| Instinctual effects | Etheric body | 2. Magical-animistic | ||
| Associative memory | Astral (emotion) body | 3. Power-gods | ||
| Practical intelligence | Sensation-soul | 4. Absolutist-religious | ||
| Creative-spiritual intelligence | 1. Existential self | 1. Empirical | Rational-soul | 5. Individualistic-achiever |
| 2. Duality self | 2. Conceptual | Consciousness-soul | 6. Relativistic; 7. Systematic-integrative | |
| 3. Dialectical self | 3. Temporal | Spirit-self | 8. Global-holistic | |
| 4. Realized self (quaternity thinking) | 4. True meditative thinking | Spirit-life; Spirit-man | 9. Coral |
Note: Pascual-Leone's stages here are glossed in the source as "stages of self development beyond the phenomenological ego or ordinary adult ego = stages of the transcendental ego, or 'ultraself.'"
Cook-Greuter
Back to the basic-structures spine.
| Level | Structure | Perspective | Self-sense | Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensorimotor | Perception | None | Presocial | Autistic, undifferentiated |
| Phantasmic-emotional | Impulse/emotion | None | Symbiotic | Confused, confounded |
| Symbol | 1st person | Impulsive | Rudimentary | |
| Rep-mind | Endocept/concept | — | Self-protective | Self-labeling basic dichotomies, concepts |
| Conop | Rule/role, early | 2nd person | Rule-oriented | Early roles |
| Rule/role, late | — | Conformist | Simple roles | |
| Formop | Formal, early | 3rd person | Self-conscious | Introspection |
| Formal, late | — | Goal-oriented, conscientious | Historical self, many roles | |
| Postformal | Vision-logic, early | 4th person | Individualistic, autonomous | Relativity of self, self as system |
| Vision-logic, late | 5th/6th person | Ego-witnessing, construct-witnessing | Self as construct | |
| Psychic | Early (vision) | Global, cosmic | Universal, cosmic | Self as transparent, transcendence |
See Also
- The Proximate Self and the Distal Self — the proximate self this whole chart is charting the development of
- Chart 1: Wilber Correlations — shares the F-1–F-9 fulcrum spine with this chart's second table
- James Mark Baldwin — the pioneering figure behind most of the self-stage researchers correlated here
