Theories of Personality (MindTap Course List)
Theories of Personality (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305652958
Author: Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6, Problem 1RQ
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Identity crisis experienced by Erickson  in his life and contribution in his theory.

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It’s satarical that the person who has given this term “ identity crisis” had this problem with ownself and that helped him to define this exactly. Erickson had very troubled childhood, his real father had left her mother and later jewish step father when had given his own name to him, that also became the troublesome part of his life.

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Erickson theory was based on psychosocial stages in which each level of life leads to another good level of development if the earlier level was framed good, and no fixation is there then child is able to fully enjoy each part of life. As if one gets fixated at first level of development then he will not trust anyone, which will hinder his development and become trouble for identity development of one person as Erickson in his whole life tried to frame his identity because of childhood experiences of his life. He felt like he will never be able to frame his identity.

Conclusion

So, according to him, childhood experiences can play an important role in every one life as per Erickson and no fixation can lead to identity development.

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