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Erik H. Erikson · 1950
A foundational psychoanalytic work examining childhood development across different cultures and societies, introducing Erikson's theory of psychosocial stages of life and the concept of identity formation from infancy through old age.
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What this book knows
Identity forms across eight life stages through the dynamic interplay of individual development, cultural context, and the crises each era demands we resolve.
self-and-identity
the healthy child, if halfway properly guided, merely obeys and on the whole can be trusted to obey inner laws of development
CS-RC-261the image of the freeman is founded on that northern European who, having escaped feudal and religious laws, disavowed his motherland
CS-RC-196shame
From the sense of inner goodness emanates autonomy and pride; from the sense of badness, doubt and shame.
CS-RC-275obedience-and-authority
once a patriarchal superego is firmly established in early childhood, you can give youth rope: they cannot let themselves go far
CS-RC-133Healthy, hard, calm, obedient, fanatic, they 'challenge everything that is weak in body, in intensity, and in loyalty.'
CS-RC-139people, for their own good, must be rigidly restrained, while being offered, now and then, ways of discharging compressed emotion
CS-RC-2356 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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