Erik Erikson and the American psyche
Subtitle: ego, ethics, and evolution
By: Daniel Burston
Series: Psychological issues; Psychological issues (unnumbered)
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780765704948; 9780765704955
Subjects: Erikson, Erik H. -- 1902-1994; Psychoanalysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index
Table of contents: title: In Hitler's shadow; title: Sages, psychoanalysts, and the public sphere; title: Childhood and adolescence; title: Anna Freud, analytic training and disappointment in Denmark; title: The new world; title: The impossible profession; title: An American identity; title: The end of the beginning : middle age and its vicissitudes; title: From Berkeley to stockbridge; title: In his own voice; title: A crisis of integrity; title: Erikson at Harvard; title: A Christmas carol; title: Existentialism, Judaism and Christianity; title: Conscience, aggression, and civil disobedience; title: On ablation : the Berman episode; title: Situating Erikson; title: Beyond ego psychology; title: Innovation and fidelity to Freud in Erikson, Klein, Fromm, Winnicott, and Lacan; title: Psychohistory : Luther and Gandhi; title: History and psychohistory; title: Why Luther?; title: Luther in context; title: Why Gandhi?; title: Sex and aggression in Luther and Gandhi; title: Mother- and father-centered devotional types; title: Gandhi as prophet; title: Gandhi, Freud, and Erikson; title: Evolution and conscience in Darwin, Freud, and Erikson; title: Instinct, adaptation, and progress; title: Conformity, conscience, and pseudospeciation; title: Family, tradition, and the cycle of generations; title: Technology, identity, and the decline of intergenerational ties; title: The historicity of dreams : Freud, Fliess, and Jung; title: The clash of interpretations; title: Freud, friendship, and the fear of death; title: Men, women, and professional identity; title: Rivalry, plagiarism, and Oedipal evasiveness; title: Inner, outer, and in-between; title: Erikson's erasure; title: Irrelevance and the academy; title: Childhood in America : then and now; title: Human nature, human needs, and technological change