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pterI.Apersonastheauthoroftheirowndevelopment
andtheirworld.Tismeansthatapersonhastherighttofreedevelopment
(Zeidler,2006,p.73)aswellastherighttoself-realisationaccordingtotheir
owndesiresandimaginations.Teseideasdidnotappearinthe21stcentury.
TeyhavemanifestedindeliberationsofscholarssinceAristotle.Heinvent-
edtheconceptofentelecheia,whichisstillusedbymodernpsychologists.It
definesaperson)stendencytowardsandcapabilityofself-fulfilment,based
onthetwomostbasicfeaturesofhumanbeings:theirfacultyforself-pres-
ervationandcapacityforself-development.Nevertheless,thearchetypeof
apersonasasystemfulfillingitselfaccordingtoitsownself-determination,
withunlimitedandthusunpredictablepotential,isamodelthatappearedlate
inpsychology.Inthischapter,twotheoriesforinterpretingthecapacitiesof
theself-authoringpersonarepresented.
10Towardsself-authorship:Fromlisteningtoexternal
opinionstodevelopingone’sinternalvoice
AccordingtoRobertKegan(1982,1994),thenewworldcallsforamodern
mindsetforpeoplethatwillenableapersontobeaself-initiatingandself-eval-
uatinghumanbeing,readytoinventvalues,beliefs,convictionsandindividual
standards.Ten,thepersonCisnolongerauthoredbythem.Itauthorsthem
andtherebyachievesapersonalauthority)(Kegan,1984,p.185).Tepsy-
chologistdescribedCtheevolutionofconsciousness,thepersonalunfolding
ofwaysoforganisingexperiencethatarenotsimplyreplacedaswegrowbut
subsumedintomorecomplexsystemsofmind)(Kegan,1994,p.9).Kegan
identifiedself-authorship,whichisacomplexorganisationofthemindthat
facilitatesthecapabilitytointernallygeneratebeliefsystems,intrapersonal
statesandinterpersonalloyalties.Tatmeansthatself-authorshipcoversand
integratesthreedimensionsofdevelopment:epistemological,intrapersonal
andinterpersonal.Suchanideaofself-evolutionintegratesthinkingand
feeling,cognitionandalect,theselfandothers.AlthoughKeganreferredto
thisasthegrowthofthemind,hewasexplicitthatthewordmindcommits
toCtheperson)smeaning-constructiveormeaning-organisationalcapacities)
(BaxterMagolda,2009b,p.623).Self-authorshipariseswhenthereisashif
fromallowinganexternalauthoritytoinfluenceone)sdecisions,valuesand
beliefstowardsinternalownershipofone)svaluesandstandards.Tismove