Listening To Elilah Erikson Analysis

The Up Series documents the lives of fourteen children in a longitudinal study. The filmmaker interviews these fourteen individuals every seven years to examine how their lives progress over time and to examine how their socioeconomic status affects their life. In this paper, Suzy will be examined from age 7 to age 56. Over the course of the Up Series, Suzy’s personality and priorities changed dramatically in almost all of the aspects of her life. From the small bits and pieces of her life that were captured and shown on the series, the course her life could have taken could have been much different. Her story shows that one life event can change the course of your whole life. In the end Suzy was the poster child of how one life event can change the rest of your life. She is not necessarily the poster child for wealth, prosperity and privilege that the series paint her to be. Initially, she was because that was the type of person the filmmaker wanted to portray her as. However, in the end, she was successful at portraying herself very differently. It took her many years to do so, but she was able to do it. By the end of the series, Suzy changed the way she portrays herself, and much of this change has to do with the life events she has experienced. She experienced being a resistant child and young adult on the series, losing a parent at a young age, finding a successful marriage and experiencing financial instability. All of these events happened at an age the made her grow

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

The beginning stages of Erikson’s (1968, 1980, 1982) model focus almost entirely on the individual and the self, developing those personal characteristics and developing the idea of the self. It is not until middle adulthood that the psychosocial conflict changes perspective to reflect outside of the self. The seventh psychosocial stage is generativity versus stagnation, which takes place during the ages of 40 to 60. In this stage, the individual turns the focus outside of themselves and starts to focus on society, community, and the family. While a person can feel generative by having their own family and children, this is only a small part of being successfully generative.

During our lives, serval blissful, traumatic, culture event that established the transformations during cognitive, social, physical, and characteristic changes in our lives from the time of birth through our death. A person’s existence is shaped and molded by the experiences that have set us physically and mentality. The interview conducted for this project for an understanding of, Mrs. Candi Jones, is a mother, daughter, and sister. She was the middle child of in a physically disable household where father and sister hearing-impaired; a mother who is deaf. They are a mixture of a sibling through birth, adoption, and foster. During the interview with Ms. Jones, she discusses experienced numerous events in her life that play a major influenced

Reading the novel She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb has led me to think about my own challenges, which helped me better comprehend the book’s themes. Throughout the story, protagonist Dolores Price deals with a variety of issues, which includes appearance, constant mistakes, and amends for those mistakes to understand her purpose in life. Although Dolores’s problems are different from mine, I could relate to her struggle. Because of this, I was able to better understand myself and the themes of transformation and coming of age.

Throughout the course of any being’s life, they are greatly influenced by the people and environment around them. In the coming of age fictional biography, She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, the reader follows the protagonist Delores Price throughout her journey in life from the age four to forty. Delores goes through many trials and tribulations in the course of her life, which include witnessing abuse and infidelity, experiencing rape, alienation, the deaths of her loved ones, suicidal tendencies and rebirth. Many of the experiences and traumas as well as deaths Delores witnessed and was subject to made her personality revolve around dysfunctional relationships and left her lost on how to approach life.

Being brought into the world as a savior sister and having to undergo countless surgeries so that her older sister can fight leukemia, has an impact on Anna’s psychosocial development. Psychosocial development focuses on the development of the personality. It refers to how a persons mind, emotions and maturity level develop throughout the course of their lifespan (McLeod, 2010, p 4 ). Well known psychologist Erik Erikson gave an insightful theory of how personality develops based on his experience when working in psychotherapy, with children and adolescents from low, upper and middleclass background (Personality development, 2009, p 6). According to Erikson, the socialization process of an individual refers to eight stages, each stage is accompanied by a “psychosocial crisis” that needs to be solved in the

I interviewed “Lessmusclethenkevin”, age 14, on November 7th, 2014. I believe that Lessmusclethenkevin is Young Adult based on my interview. A young adult is a stage of life that Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development states a person goes through. Erikson’s theory states that every single person goes through the same 8 stages of life in different ways. So using his theory I interviewed lessmusclethenkevin. I believe that he is in front of his normal stage of development in comparison to his age. The reasons that lead me to this conclusion are that he showed remarkable maturity, incredible intelligence, and little interest in what the other Adolescents are doing. If my hypothesis is correct, this would mean his maturity/stage of development

The story by Kathryn Seifhert takes place in the time of someone's life, and is written in the first person. It takes us through time in history on how everyone breaks down and has that failure to escape,but can make a difference in their own life if they put their mind to it. Seifhert goes on to tell her story that her, “family was poor and had to cope with suicides, and mental illness,” and goes on to tell at that time what had happened. She goes on and on about how she felt like every time she had gotten up in life she fails, and soon enough says, “Life marched on and it turned positive,” in the end. In Seifhert story she identified life's challenges and the failure in life when you feel like you can't escape

She attached herself to young men that she thought would take her away from the place where she didn’t belong. She fell in love with Robert because he was the one who started the awakening. “It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream”(620). She imagined that he would take her away to a place where they could be happy and she could be who she wanted.

This psychological interview analysis will compare and summarize the theoretical applications of Erikson’s Theory of Human Development and Levinson’s Life Structure Approach. The subject of the interview, Charlotte McBeth, will express the challenges that arise in the stable and transitional periods of life in a Scottish family, which she expresses in the various aspects of instability and transitional periods that Levinson defines. The death of an infant brother defines one such instability, which reflects the high infant mortality rate and a sense of guilt that Erikson would analyze through the “Initiative v Guilt” stage of childhood. However, Charlotte had a large and supportive family unit, which allowed her to find intimacy in adolescent with her close friend, Rena. In adulthood, Charlotte was able to transition to America by having a family support when leaving Scotland to find better job opportunities abroad. In essence, a summary of Charlotte’s interview will be accompanied by a psychological comparison of Erikson and Levinson’s life development theories.

Erikson’s stage that I am choosing to explore is the sixth stage, known as intimacy vs isolation. This is the stage when young people learn to make personal commitment to another spouse, parent, or partner. Throughout this stage, one also tends to seek love. One starts to wonder whether he or she will be loved or will he or she be alone. Ideally, this relates to my own personal life because recently, I tried to pursue a relationship with someone who did not have interest me. These feelings developed based off my interpretation of love. When I venture out to find love, I look for someone who offers me happiness. As a result of my own beliefs, I thought this person liked me back. Little did I know, I was totally wrong. This accusation resulted in me creating

Erik Erikson was a prominent American psychologist that created many theories about human development and social growth. Erikson produced a stage model based upon the premise that a person lives in the social world and that personality is formed based upon the social interactions that a person experiences. He describes a series of development crises that a person must face throughout the lifespan. Erikson’s theory can be applied to “The King of Pop”, Michael Jackson. Many stages of Erikson’s psychosocial theory failed in Michael Jackson’s life. The results of Jackson not successful completing these stages lead him to be mentally deranged.

It is clear to see every one of Erikson’s stages play out within my mother’s life. As a 46-year-old woman, she has achieved most all of the beginning stages, such as autonomy and industry, but it was not until after she was married, at age 22, that she gained a more clear and confident identity while she simultaneously worked toward achieving intimacy. Though Erikson believed that one must have a secure self identity before moving onto the next stage, which includes marriage, it is evident in the case of my mother that the relationships she formed after marriage are what makes up the majority of her current identity. In stage seven she developed a mature love and fully found her identity through experiences as a mother and wife. She even went as far as to say that she would have “most likely turned

Growing up isn’t as easy as it seems, it's a very difficult process that we go through in our life. Like from the novel “Northern Lights” by the author Philip Pullman, Lyra became her own individual once she went against her mother and said “no” to the separation she wasn't as innocent as we would had thought. All children grow up but some people as they get older they grow apart from their inner self, from who they really are either to fit in to or for religious reasons. Like Lyra’s mom who was so distant from her soul (daemon), she grew to be an alien and stranger to herself, she didn't actually reach adulthood as an individual. While on the other hand, Lyra developed at a very young age and became more mature than her own parents. Her cleverness and disobedient character and her insistence on becoming something gave her the chance to mature. To grow up isn't just a physical change in appearance, it's more of a mental and spiritual growth. Just like what we noticed between Lyra and her mom in the book “Northern Lights” that was about the journey of growing up and how some adults never do. This paper will explain how growing up is shown and who actually develops and