Erik Homburger Erikson (1902-1994) was a German-born American psychoanalyst and educator whose studies have perhaps contributed most to the understanding of the young. On June 15, 1902, Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, of Danish...

Erikson's Theory Influential theory of lifelong psychological development by child psychologist Erik Erikson. The German-born child development expert Erik Erikson (1902-1994), who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, published his...

Constructs Psychosexual development Psychosocial development Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious Id, ego, and super-ego Libido • Drive Transference • Sublimation • Resistance Important Figures Sigmund Freud • Carl Jung Alfred Adler •...

There was something Tolstoyan about the work of Erik Erikson. Like the aristocratic Russian novelist, Erikson explored the tension within the individual psyche between despair and fulfillment. He sought to clarify the conjunction of history and personal happiness. His expository efforts to portray the...

Erik Homburger Erikson, psychoanalyst: born Frankfurt am Main, Germany 15 June 1902; Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School 1935-36; Research Assistant / Instructor / Assistant Professor in Psychoanalysis, Yale School of Medicine 1936-39; Research Associate in Child Development /Lecturer in Psychiatry /Professor of Psychology, University...

The great editor Clay Felker, who invented so much of what drives this newspaper and so many magazines in New York City, liked to refer to New York as the “City of Ambition,” a phrase created by his friend Tom Wolfe. What is the City...

Essay provides a pyschoanalysis of the world-renowned psychologist Erik Erikson.

Erik Erikson and his contributions to psychology.

Essay explains the views and life of Erik Erikson as well as his influence on developmental psychology.