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Arrested development (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one of Jung's guesses about schizophrenia: an unusual share of primitive psyche that fails to keep up with consciousness, until a demand for adaptation lets it burst forth with contents too strange to assimilate.

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Arrested development (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the teenage bedroom with the same posters, now rented from your parents.

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Arrested development (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a stopped watch, still showing the best hour it ever had.

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Arrested development (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a refusal to grow up; it is finding the one year that worked and staying in it.

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The Development of personality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one of the costliest of all things: saying yes to oneself, taking oneself as the most serious task and keeping all one's dubious aspects before one's eyes.

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Economic development (n.) experiments ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠obey one regularity: the designers do quite well, while the subjects of the experiment take a beating.

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Economic development (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the West was brutal even with every advantage and the whole world still there to be robbed; today's poor countries find it already robbed.

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Economic development (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Kinds of Developments

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