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Life History and the Historical Moment: Diverse Presentations by Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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...

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Author

Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company;[Repro Pfeffer]

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393347357

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Psychology