Roland Kim's
Five Stages of Civilization

The books draw inspiration from Roland (1989), who used a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic models in his work. His range included traditional Freudian approaches like ego psychology, and extended to more recent Freudian developments such as Erikson’s self-identity studies, self-psychology, object-relations theory, and the theories of Rank and the Menaker on individuation. Roland explored various facets of personality complexity and emphasized the importance of adapting and reinterpreting these Western-based models for non-Western contexts.