Erik Erikson

Erik Homberger Erikson was born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. Erikson’s Jewish mother Karla Abrahamsen and biological father an unnamed Danish man abandoned him before he was born. His mother married Dr. Theodor Homberger who would raise Erikson as his son. The family moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany. Erikson officially changed his named to Erik Erikson when he became an American citizen. No one truly knows why he chose the name, Erikson. Early in Erikson’s education instead of focusing on chemistry and biology he studied art and many different languages. Erikson never cared for formal schooling and decided not to attend college. By the time Erikson graduated high school he wanted to become an artist. During the early 1920’s, Erikson travel to Europe but due to lack of funds he found himself sleeping under bridges. After Erikson traveled around Europe for a year he decided to enroll in an art school back in Germany. Erikson studied art for several years and even began to teach art along with other subjects to American children who came to Vienna for Freudian training. Freudian training is the study of the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. In 1933 Erikson…

Erik Erikson’s is also known for his well-known cycle of life that included his eight-stage theory and identity formation of psychosocial task identified as a normative event. “Erik Erikson points out the ways in which significant identity formation takes place after adolescence, for certain people depending on cultural and historical contexts”. (Erikson, 1958). Erikson further explains, many people can experience of psychological limbo and void during an identity crisis. In Erikson 's words,…

through growing up. According to Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development people go through many experiences that can attribute to their personal identity. Growing up there have been many emotional and psychological experiences that have shaped who I am. The first stage in Erikson’s psychosocial theory is trust versus mistrust. This stage takes place around the age of infancy to 1.5 years old. According to Saul McLeod from SimplyPsychology.com, this is the stage that infants are…

Erik Erikson, a psychoanalyst, developed his theory of social development in 1950 (revised in 1963) (MacCoby, 2002). Erikson’s model includes eight distinct stages of psychosocial progression through a life span (Hutchinson, 2015). For instance, each phase contains an age specific tasks which allow them to develop emotionally and socially (MacCoby, 2002). Specifically, when a person meets the challenges of a stage they progress, but if they are unsuccessful, they may difficulty in the following…

child’s relations to his parents, and functioning as a kind of conscience, criticising the thoughts and acts of the ego, causing feelings of guilt and anxiety, when the ego gratifies or tends to gratify primitive impulses (Osborne, 1993). One of Freud’s major contributions was to stimulate the work of other theorists and researchers (Roazen, 1976). Erik Erikson was one of the most talented and imaginative of these theorists (Roazen, 1976). A neo-Freudian psychoanalyst from Denmark, Erikson…

Identity is a common technical term used in contemporary sociological social psychology. The term “personal identity” was virtually unknown in sociology before the 1940s. (ERIKSON 5). Identity was a very big concern in the life of Erik Erikson throughout his childhood and even into his adulthood. Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a Danish mother, Karla Abrahamsen and Dr. Theodore Homburger, whom Erikson was lead to believe was his biological father. As it turned out, Dr. Homburger was a…

Erik Erikson, a German psychoanalyst, discusses a theory of development that occurs throughout the lifespan. While Erik discusses his development theory in eight stages, this essay will be addressing the first five stages. Considering family and society the resolution of positive and negative crisis depends on interactions which makes these stages very important to infancy, childhood, and adulthood development. Infants are born helpless because they depend on others for their needs. Stage 1,…

Erik Erikson 's Theory of Psychosocial Development Erik Erikson 's Theory of Psychosocial Development is the theory that as we go throughout our lives we experience eight essential stages in our lives. Each corresponding stage has a correlating virtue or vice alongside an existential question that the person may subconsciously wonder as they move on throughout their psychosocial development. Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist greatly influenced by the Id psychologist, Sigmund Freud.…

Erik Erikson was born in Germany in 1902 and died in 1994. He never knew his father and therefore, was raised by his mother and stepfather (Erikson 2001). Many think that never knowing his father is what lead Erikson on the path of psychology. In 1933, he became a teacher in the US at Harvard Medical School and “practiced child psychoanalysis privately” (Erikson 2001). It was around this time he developed his point of view in psychology. One of the reasons why people think he was so influential…

Erikson 's was more focused on dealing with the most punctual stages and youth, rather than taking note of that perhaps adults who did not experience certain phases as children or adolescents, may actually experience them sometime down the road, still making his stages suitable but used in altered orders or possibly two stages at once. Erikson didn’t understand that more consideration may have been paid to the stages and certain complications in life that we face with these stages, other than…