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.
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Release date: |
November 1977 |
| First published: |
November 1977 |
| Authors: |
Erik H. Erikson
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
284 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-393-00860-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-393-00860-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780393008609 |
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