Identity: Youth and Crisis. Erik H. Erikson. Norton, New York, 1968. 336 pp. Cloth, $6.95; paper, $2.95
Identity: Youth and Crisis. Erik H. Erikson. Norton, New York, 1968. 336 pp. Cloth, $6.95; paper, $2.95
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身份:青年与危机。
DOI:
10.1126/science.161.3838.257
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发表时间:
1968
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
K. Keniston
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作者:
K. Keniston
The continuing vitality of psycho-analysis has been much questioned in recent years. Psychoanalysis is of course many things. It is a" movement" with both political and ideological components, backed by a training system not altogether dissimilar from the novitiate and buttressed by a complex body of exegesis on the work of Freud. Psychoanalysis is also a therapeutic technique the most intensive, thoroughgoing, and expensive method of psychological change. Finally, psychoanalysis is a comprehensive theory of human devel-opment that claims a scientific basis. In each of these modes psychoanal-ysis has been challenged, often most vigorously by psychoanalysts themselves. The" political" aspects of the psychoanalytic movement, the ideological component of psychoanalytic training, and the reverential traditionalism of some psychoanalytic writing have been widely attacked. Most psychoanalysts today acknowledge that classical psy-choanalysis as a therapy is counterindicated for many or most patients. And the claims of psychoanalysis to status as a scientific theory of human behavior have been repeatedly questioned. Whatever the limitations of psycho-analysis as ideology or as therapy, the continuing vitality of psychoanalytic theory is witnessedby the most recent work of Erik Erikson, Identity: Youth and Crisis. Erikson is perhaps the most original of those who sought to continue the spirit of Freud's pioneering inquiry into the human psyche. In this new volume, his most theoretical work to date, he has collected and rewritten 20 years of essays on the subject of identity. The papers here updated include his work on identity and history, on the" identity crisis," on the psychology of women,