The landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.

Childhood and Society

Health, Fitness & Dieting

ERIKSON, Erik H.

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin??Books

Young Man Luther

A Study in Psychoanalysis and History.

Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

Biographies & Memoirs

W. W. Norton & Company; Incorporated

In this book, Erikson makes a Psychoanalytic investigation of Gandhi's use of Militant Nonviolence.

Gandhi's Truth

Norton

One of the most powerful (though deceptively simple) of current ideas is Erik H. Erikson's insight into the nature of the interrelationships of the psychogenic development of an individual and the historical development of the times. This insight, present in all his work beginning with Childhood and Society, and particularly examined in Young Man Luther and Gandhi's Truth, finds full and mature expression in the present book. Just as Erikson's notion of the identity crisis has been obscured and confused as it has passed into everyday speech, so too have glib popularizers misused his notions of psychobiography and psychohistory. Thus, this book is of supreme importance, not merely to set the record straight, but more especially to make these vital ideas, central to our time, fully available. "To deal with life history and history psychoanalytically," Erikson points out, "means to engage in a kind of circular chronology: our inquiry always points to selected periods in the past which, in throwing new light on the present, suggest new forays into the more distant past." Consequently, this book opens with autobiography; ranges through discussions of Freud and Gandhi and of the meaning of ideas on womanhood; and concludes with an examination of the role of psychoanalysis in the evolution of ethics.

Erikson Life History and the Historical Moment (Paper)

W.W.Norton&Company

The two lectures presented in this important volume were delivered by Erik H. Erikson at the second annual Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanitites. In the first lecture, entitled "The Founders: Jeffersonion Action and Faith," Erikson uses selected themes from Jefferson's life to illustrate some principles of psychohistory. In the second lecture, "The Inheritors: Modern Insight and Foresight," Erikson applied his main concepts to the problems of ongoing history. The title of the lectures contains one such concept. "New identity" is the result of radical historical change and is here meant to characterize the emerging American identity as first embodied in such men as Jefferson. Erikson first explores certain themes in his examination of the emerging American identity during Jefferson's time. He then attempts to relate the Jeffersonian themes to contemporary problems of repression and suppression, of moralistic vindication, and true liberation by insight. Finally, Erikson maintains that now that children will be born by the privileged choice of parental persons, an adult environment fitting the living and the to-be-living becomes an ethical necessity. There is no question that this work ranks among Erikson's most challenging and seminal books.

Dimensions of a New Identity

History

Americas

Identity and the life cycle

"The problem of Ego Identity" is dealt with successively from the biographic and the developmental, the clinical and the social points of view. "Growth and Crises of the Healthy Personality" is an elaboration of the original attempt to go beyond childhood and adolescence and to spell out the critical stages of the whole life cycle.

Identity and the Life Cycle

W.W.Norton and Company

Insight & Responsibility (Cloth)

W.W.Norton

The American dream is examined in an analysis of the individual and collective formation, through the interaction of customs, of a shared cultural vision of reality

Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience, 1st Edition

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Covers a wide spectrum of topics on human development from children's play and the dreams of adults, cross-cultural observations, young adulthood, and the life cycle, to reminiscences about some of Erikson's colleagues, such as Anna Freud

A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers of Erik H. Erikson, 1930-1980

A psychoanalytical study of the significance of society on childhood using case studies of American and European children

Teen & Young Adult

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Childhood and Society

Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

Gandhi's Truth

Erikson Life History and the Historical Moment (Paper)

Dimensions of a New Identity

Identity and the Life Cycle

Insight & Responsibility (Cloth)

Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience, 1st Edition

A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers of Erik H. Erikson, 1930-1980

Childhood and Society