Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson
Erik Hamburger Eriksonwas a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T. Erikson, is a noted American sociologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 June 1902
CityFrankfurt, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
determination exercise self
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.
responsibility caring self
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.
healing self play
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.
self identity ability
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
dim homage inclusive knowledge leaders men paying purest rules shown simplest taught
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
future save species
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
cannot entirely history observers
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
history
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
disrupted loses nourished sequence time
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
destroy notice
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
against defeats follower forms mass measured member triumphs whether
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
almost certain conviction guiding meaning represent ways
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.