Before revision: Erikson considered that 'if vigor of mind combines with the gift of responsible renunciation, some old people can envisage human problems in their entirety...a living example of the "closure" of a style of life'.Erikson, quoted in Jane M. Ford, Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce (1998) p. 60 The opposite of ego integrity was despair, as 'signified by fear of death: the one and only life cycle is not accepted as the ultimate of life.
After revision: I love dem KookiesErikson considered that 'if vigor of mind combines with the gift of responsible renunciation, some old people can envisage human problems in their entirety...a living example of the "closure" of a style of life'.Erikson, quoted in Jane M. Ford, Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce (1998) p. 60 The opposite of ego integrity was despair, as 'signified by fear of death: the one and only life cycle is not accepted as the ultimate of life.