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Class average on midterm was just under 60% 2 life tasks that distinguished his thinking; stages concerning identity thought adolescence and early adulthood. One of his primary achievements was to reformulate freud"s idea of psychosexual development into a lifelong theory of psychosocial development; 2 distinguishing features; the way erikson appropriates and re-conceptualizes each of freud"s stages. And how he extends the period of development beyond childhood into middle and later adulthood. Born erik homburger; father abandoned him and his mother. Born a jew and a protestant and found himself accepted by neither community. In early 20"s began to travel as an artist living like a gypsy. In 25 landed in vienna; took a teaching position at a school were there was a community of psychoanalysts; including freud and his daughter (?) Clients would come to receive psychotherapy ; when the mothers came they would being their children. Erikson accepted a position in a school where these children went.