Insight and Responsibility

By Erik H. Erikson

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000NPDZW2
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

the need to keep Erik Erikson at the top of any heap

Erik Erikson's Insight and Responsibility is a must, even though it can be dense. Erikson, as a philosophical social psychologist and psychoanalyst is one of the first to mix psychology and anthropology with the meaning of social existence and survival. Childhood and Society is even more important and easier for the reader and has a larger scope but still here we have the equivalent of : IF IN FACT WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF INSIGHT AS A SPECIES DO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF GETTING BEYOND OUR TENDENCY TO HAVE MORALIZING IGNORE OUR LIMITATIONS AND OUR CAPACITIES? It is as relevant now, if not more than ever...