Bøger af Erik H. Erikson

Erik H. Erikson er, takket være sin store indsigt og sin levende stil, blevet en af de mest læste af de moderne psykoanalytiske forfattere. Han havde i mange år sit virke ved amerikanske universiteter og forskningsinstitutioner, bl.a. som professor i psykiatri og Human Development ved Harvard University.I Identitet – ungdom og kriser sammenfatter og videreudvikler Erikson sine teorier om identiteten i et foranderligt samfund, her med fokus på ungdommen. Der redegøres grundigt og med mange eksempler for de unges identitetsdannelse og -problemer, og Erikson leverer interessante bidrag til en forståelse af såvel køns- som raceidentitet.Identitet – ungdom og kriser udkom første gang på dansk i 1971 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

Erickson postulates that a space-time orientation provided by a viable worldview is, complimentary to the inner work of the individual psyche and is attuned to its multiple functions. In a central chapter, the author links the phylogeny and the ontogeny of worldviews by describing stages in the ritualization of everyday life-that is, the interplay of customs (including the use of language) with from birth to death convey and confirm the "logic" of the visions predominant or contending in a society. He emphasizes the playful and yet compelling power of viable ritualization to connect individual growth with the maintenance of a vital institutions; but he also illustrates the fateful tendency of human interplay to turn into self-deception and collusion, of ritualization to become deadly ritualism-and of visions to end in nightmares of alienation and distraction. Erickson advocates the pooling of interdisciplinary insights in order to clarify the conscious and unconscious motivation which works for or against the more universal and more insightful worldview essential in a technological age.

The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.

Erik H. Erikson hører til de centrale skikkelser i amerikansk psykoanalyse, og hans Barnet og samfundet er en klassiker på sit felt. Mens Freud betonede seksualitetens betydning i den tidlige barndom, lægger Erikson vægt på den psyko-sociale udvikling, dvs. samspillet mellem følelser og behov på den ene side og opdragelse og menneskelige relationer på den anden.Med eksempler fra oprindelige nordamerikanere viser Erikson, hvordan individet og det psykiske liv formes af de sociale og kulturelle omstændigheder, og i bogens sidste del gennemgår han systematisk Jeg’ets udvikling fra oplevelsen af fundamental tillid til selvstændig integritet.Barnet og samfundet udkom første gang på dansk i 1971 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.

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.

The two lectures presented in this important volume were delivered by Erik H. Erikson at the second annual Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanitites.

Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each of us progresses.

In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.

Erik H. Erikson's way of looking at things has contributed significantly to the understanding of human development and the nature of man.

Erik H. Erikson's remarkable insights into the relationship of life history and history began with observations on a central stage of life: identity development in adolescence.

In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.

In the six essays contained in this text the author reflects on the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight.

"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."-Robert Coles