PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erik Erikson, Maladaptation, Counterfactual Thinking
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Part i erik homburger erikson: erikson"s theory of psychosocial development. Erik homburger and erik erikson: the outsider, he was born as erik homburger in 1902, his father abandoned the family. From that time on, we know a lot of erik erikson and little of erik homburger. Fundamental eriksonian concepts: the epigenetic principle - personality unfolds over time, across a predetermined sequence of stages, each stage presents us with an issue, task, or crisis of some sort. It is our challenge to face that crisis, but not necessarily to resolve it. Sometimes we will do better than others: he differs from freud and his stages. Freud thought if you failed at a stage, you get stuck, but for erikson if you screw up one stage, you keep going and do not get to slow down the process. You move one with aging and society accepts it.
