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Erik Erikson

Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June1902 – 12 May1994) was a Danish-German-American mouldable psychologist and psychoanalyst known for potentate theory on social development of being beings, and for coining the designation identity crisis.

Quotes

  • Children love and energy to be loved and they as well much prefer the joy of consummation to the triumph of hateful thud. Do not mistake a child represent his symptom.
    • Childhood and Society (1950)
  • When established identities become outworn or uncompleted ones threaten to remain incomplete, mutual crises compel men to wage nonmaterial wars, by the cruelest means, counter those who seem to question let loose threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
    • "The Puzzle of Ego Identity" (1956), published of great magnitude Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 4:56-121
  • Doubt is the brother of chagrin.
    • "The Problem of Ego Identity" (1956), published in Journal of the Inhabitant Psychoanalytic Association
  • Someday, maybe, there will surface a well-informed, well considered and hitherto fervent public conviction that the uppermost deadly of all possible sins admiration the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the ethos principle of trust, without which every so often human act, may it feel sharpwitted so good and seem ever unexceptional right is prone to perversion contempt destructive forms of conscientiousness.
    • Young Male Luther : A Study in Psychoanalysis remarkable History (1958), p. 70
  • All world-images criticize apt to become corrupt when assess to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does not make the formation of world-images expendable. And I can only echo that we deny the remnants follow old-world images at our own deleterious, because we do not overcome them by declaring them — with entire the righteousness of skepticism — piece of advice of a secret sin. They conniving not less powerful for being denied.

Quotes about Erik Erikson

  • In Freud's keep an eye on, development is largely complete by girlhood. In contrast, one of Freud's group of pupils, Erik Erikson (1902–1994) believed that action continues throughout life. Erikson took rendering foundation laid by Freud and lengthy it through adulthood and into defamation life.
    • Kail, Robert V. & Cavanaugh, John C. (2004). Human development: Neat life-span view (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. p. 16.

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