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
needs interdependence we-need-each-other
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
know-yourself knows
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
choices needs facts
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
wise years people
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
hope alive life-is
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
tragedy facts life-is
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
feelings identity alive
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
being-strong responsibility cycle-of-life
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
anticipation life-is ifs
If life is to be sustained, hope must remain...
mind faces assuming
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.
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.
generations abandoned sequence
Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
hope miracle responsibility vigorous
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
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.