Before revision: Ego integrity was the term given by Erik Erikson to the last of his eight stages of psychosocial development, and used by him to represent 'a post-narcissistic love of the human ego ... as an experience which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no matter how dearly paid for'.Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (Penguin 1973) pp.
After revision: Ego integrity was the term given by Erik Erikson to the last of his eight stages of psychosocial development, and used by him to represent 'a post-narcissistic love of the human ego --- as an experience which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no matter how dearly paid for'.Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (Penguin 1973) pp.