PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erik Erikson, Formal System, The Counselor
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Infancy narrative tone: childhood imagery & theme, adolescence setting & character. Dimensions of human existence: agency, focus on the self, formation of separations, striving for self-expansion and self-elevation, communion, focus on others, formation of connections, striving for contact and congregation w/others. Early childhood images: the nursery school child is busy acquiring a stockpile of rich emotionally laden images from family, school, the media, etc, culturally grounded or sanctioned images provide raw material for later life-story development. Lecture 11: the elementary school child is able to organize human intentions into coherent stories with beginnings, Integrating a life middles & endings: as accounts of human intentions, stories tell what the characters are striving for, themes of separation & mastery (agency, themes of union & solidarity (communion) Standard of good life-story form: credibility historical fidelity, coherence internal consistency, differentiation thematic complexity, reconciliation resolution of story conflicts, openness flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity.
