PSYB30H3 Lecture 15: Thorough Notes on Lecture 15
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Overview of week 9: part i: erik homburger erikson, part ii: identity & intimacy, part iii: generativity. Part i: erik homburger erikson"s theory of psychosocial development. this is a reformulation of freud"s psychoanalytic model. freud proposed a model of psycho-sexual development which erikson reformulated into a life-long theory of psycho-social development. various virtues/strengths he imaged we acquired after confronting each of these challenges successfully. Erik homburger & erik erikson: the outsider. he was born as erik homburger, jew mother and protestant father. erik found himself accepted by neither community (jewish or protestant) authors refer to this stage in erik"s life as the outsider: the wandering artist. in his early 20s erik began travelling europe as an artist living a gypsy lifestyle (borat would hate him) and he travelled until age 25 when he landed in vienna: the psychoanalyst. once in vienna, he takes teaching position in a small school.
