Bibliograph

Identity, youth, and crisis, Erik H. Erikson

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Identity, youth, and crisis, Erik H. Erikson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 323-329)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Identity, youth, and crisis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

204288

Responsibility statement

Erik H. Erikson

Summary

Essays in ego psychology, based on papers written from 1951 to 1967, by a neo-Freudian analyst and theorist

Table Of Contents

I. Prologue. -- II. Foundations in observation : 1. A clinician's notebook -- 2. On totalitarianism -- III. The life cycle: epigenesis of identity : 1. Infancy and the mutuality of recognition -- 2. Early childhood and the will to be oneself -- 3. Childhood and the anticipation of roles -- 4. School age and task identification -- 5. Adolescence. -- 6. Beyond identity -- IV. Identity confusion in life history and case history : 1. Biographic I: creative confusio. (1) G.B.S. (age 70) on young Shaw (age 20). -- (2) William James, his own alienist -- 2. Genetic: identification and identity -- 3. Pathographic: the clinical picture of severe identity confusion -- 4. Societal: from individual confusion to social order -- 5. Biographic II.: the confusion returns, psychopathology of every night. (1) Freud's dream of Irma -- (2) William James's terminal dream -- V. Theoretical interlude : 1. Ego and environment -- 2. Confusion, transference, and resistance -- 3. I, my self, and my ego -- 4. A communality of egos -- 5. Theory and ideology -- VI. Toward contemporary issues: youth -- VII. Womanhood and the inner space -- VIII. Race and the wider identity

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