With his book publication of “Childhood and Society”, Erik H. Erikson became a major influence in America, and a great academic figure between 1950 to 1970s, and his view on human development, culture and society drew a lot of attention. The Childhood and Society book laid out a way for the understanding between self and society. In his book he talks about the “Eight Ages of Man” in which he divides the human life into eight stages, and defined each one of them with a psychosocial view. For ten years in the 1950s, Erikson and his colleagues focused on the fifth stage in the Eight Ages of Man theory, and their focus was on the adolescent stage of identity.
In the mid and late 1960s, Erikson worked on how Gandhi had became victorious in the battle for independence in Indian without using any violence or military action. He linked his concept of generativity to Gandhi, a well matured adult who was giving the generations to come a key of survival with no violence involved. He believed Gandhi was a very good example for a positive identity. Erikson was somehow angry at his own life he wrote about Ghandhi. More specifically it was the anger he had experienced growing up from his parents. He mother lied to him about his father’s identity when was growing up. She pretended her second husband was Erikson’s real father. Years later he changed his surname to Erikson (son of Erik), he gave his own surname, and this shows that he had an unresolved identity crisis against his parents. As result, Erikson was never a good father to his own children; he was never generative to his as a father to his own biological children.
Makaleyi özetleyen: Thokozani K.M.Mbewe
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