PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Promiscuity, Record Linkage, Toilet Training
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Erik erikson: erik erikson took freud"s psychoanalytic theory and made it a life long psycho social theory. He reconceptualized every stages of freud"s: he was borned as a jewish named erik homburger, his father abandoned him and his mom, and his mom remarried into a different community. In 1933, seeing the changes in political circumstances in europe and germany, he left. German and went to america, he assumes many academic teaching position in institutions like harvard etc: he adopted the name erik erikson in 1939. Fundamental eriksonian concepts: the epigenetic principle -> personality is designed to unfold across a predetermined series of developmental stages. Each stage confronts us with a developmental task or challenge or issue, this task or challenge must be addressed, although not necessarily succeed. For each development task, there is an optimal time, and it is crucial that we take on each tasks at the appropriate time. It cannot be hurried and it cannot be stalled.
