TABLE II
GROWTH AND DIFFUSION OF THE EGO
DURING DEVELOPMENT STAGES
INFANT
(1) (Absent)
(2) Ego emerges or rises.
(3) Ego integrates and expresses
through love of self and
attachment to parents.
YOUTH
(4) ego applies itself to physical
world and makes things.
(5) Ego at zenith in crisis of
ego-identity. Personal
selfhood at height.
Separation of cognitive and
affective most distinct.
(6) Ego begins to diffuse in
sexual intimacy and in
creative production.
ADULT
(7) Ego further diffuses in
parental production and care
and in psychedelic peak
experiences which begin to 
reveal its transience.
(8) Ego subsides or sets in
illumination of individual and
absorption in larger self.
(9) (Absent)