Stability vs. Flexibility in the Dynamics of the Ego

The dynamic of the personality is more than a theoretical concept, is an existential reality, what is revealed in the person behavior. In an effort to articulate semantico-operational the concept dyamics of the Ego, we considered productive a definition based on the concept of mental dynamics. The dynamics of the Ego could be defined as action and interaction of all Ego processes, features and conditions of investments made under the influence of psychological events that change. The purpose of this dymanics would be maintaining the emotion id security of the subject, Ego integrity under changing external or internal environment. In the effort to identify the processes in the Ego dynamics, we use in this paper models from: psychoanalysis, humanistic theory, the social cognitive approach and phenomenology of personality development. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the University of Pitesti, Romania