Identity: Youth and Crisis

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Mail me on: [email protected]: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topicsoriginating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis. Identity,Erikson writes, is as unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with aprocess that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core ofthe communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questionsarise-Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protestand changing gender roles that were particular to the 1960s.Representing two decades of groundbreaking work, the essays are notso much a systematic formulation of theory as an evolving report that isboth clinical and theoretical. The subjects range from "creative confusion'in two famous lives the dramatist George Bernard Shaw and the philosopherWilliam James-to the connection between individual struggles andsocial order. "Race and the Wider Identity" and the controversial"Womanhood and the Inner Space" are included in the collection.Erik H. Erikson's other books available in Norton paperback editionsinclude Gandhi s Troth, Childhood and Society, Young Man Luther, andIdentity and the Life Cycle, as well as The Erik Erikson Reader, edited byRobert Coles. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward, Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theoristin the field of psychoanalysis and human development.About the author (1994)A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Erik H. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field of psychoanalysis and human development.