Identity, youth and crisis / Erik H. Erikson.

Includes index.

Contents : I Prologue -- II Foundations in observation -- 1 A clinician's notebook -- 2 On totalitarianism -- III The life cycle: epigenesis of identity -- 1 Infancy and the mutuality of recognition -- 2 Early childhood and the will to be oneself -- 3 Childhood and the anticipation of roles -- 4 School age and task identification -- 5 Adolescence -- 6 Beyond identity -- IV Identity confusion in life history and case history -- 1 Biographic I: Creative confusion -- 2 Genetic: identification and identity -- 3 Pathographic: the clinical picture of severe identity confusion -- 4 Societal: from individual confusion to social order -- 5 Biographic II: The confusion returns- psychopathology of every night -- V Theoretical interlude -- 1 Ego and environment -- 2 Confusion, transference, and resistance -- 3 1, my self, and my ego -- 4 A communality of egos -- 5 Theory and ideology -- VI Toward contemporary issues: youth -- VII Womanhood and the inner space -- VIII Race and the wider identity

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