PSYB30H3 Final: Lecture 15 - For the final
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One of erikson"s prime achievements was to reformulate freud"s theory of psychosexual development into a lifelong theory of psychosocial development. He is distinguishing from freud, by extending the period to a lifelong period, not just till the age of 6. Erikson was born erik homburger, to a protestant father and a jewish mother, but wasn"t accepted by either community (protestant or jewish), which is why this stage of his life is coined as the outsider . In the early 20"s he left home and began to travel all over europe as an artists (a gypsy lifestyle). He did this till the age of 25, when he lands in vienna. In vienna, he takes a teaching position at a small school, associated with the psychoanalytic society, teaching the children of the patients undergoing psychoanalysis. This lead him to want to become a psychoanalyst.
