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From Foreword to the First Edition:First: this book originated in the practice of psychoanalysis. Its main chapters are based on specimen situations which called for interpretation and correction: anxiety in young children, apathy in American Indians, confusion in veterans of war, arrogance in young Nazis. In these, as in all situations, the psychoanalytic method detects conflict; for this method was first focused on mental disturbance. Through the work of Freud, nmrotic, conflict has become the most comprehensively studied aspect of human behavior. However, this book avoids the easy conclusion that our relatively advanced knowledge of neurosis permits us to view mass phenomena—culture, religion, revolution—as analogies of neuroses in order to make them amenable to our concepts. We will pursue a different path.Psychoanalysis today is implementing the study of the (egoj a concept denoting man's cap^adty tQ.unify his experience and his action in an adaptive manner. It is shifting its emphasis from the concentrated study of the conditions which blunt and distort the individual ego to the study of the ego's roots in social organization. This we try to understand not in order to offer a

Who reads Childhood and Society?

Author

Erikson, Erik H.

Publisher

Norton; W.W. Norton & Company Ltd

Published

1964

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393096224

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Psychology, Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (1,163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13