title: Self-actualization as a developmental structure: a profile of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
abstract: The characteristics of self-actualization are fully reflected in excerpts from Saint-Exupéry's autobiographical writings. The correspondence between the characteristics of self-actualization and Saint-Exupéry's developmental profile gains special significance because there exists, independently, a theoretical structure corresponding both to self-actualization and to Saint-Exupéry's material. This structure--level IV in the theory of positive disintegration--has previously been shown to represent Saint-Exupéry's behavioral organization. The characteristics of self-actualization and the properties of level IV structure are isomorphic. Self-actualization is the consequence of level IV structure and of the potential necessary for its development.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011340:Problem Solving; D012649:Self Concept