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...slowed down considerably. He's reached the stage in life that Erik Erikson has termed "the eighth crisis in the life cycle--the crisis of ego integrity." Its basic clash is between despair. "the feeling that time is too short," and the "acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that by necessity, permitted of no substitutions." Skinner has met this crisis head on and says that he "enjoys life. That's the main thing." His psychic strength (words he might object to) and determination to keep going are very much intact...
...social identities: In Erikson's thinking, each person works out his or her identity in relation to a group that is worthy of respect-a nation, class, tribe, or caste. In recent years, however, he has downgraded the value of these groups, referring to them as dangerous "pseudo species" that maintain their own uniqueness by dehumanizing others. Each of these groups enforces a "normality" which may, in fact, be sick...
...ethics of psychoanalysis: Analysis traditionally regards itself as a therapy that provides self-knowledge but avoids prescribing values for patients. Erikson now says that this is an illusion: analysts intervene in the process by which patients create their values. Sometimes this is done by adjusting an individual to society's expectations, sometimes by seeming to encourage destructively "unrepressed" behavior (like a selfish sexual life that uses other people as objects). Erikson is unclear as to whether analysts can ever stop prescribing values, however unconsciously. But he insists they must try to do so, particularly since he expects rising pressures...
...women: Erikson's clarifications of his 1963 essay do not clarify much. He seems to be saying that biology is destiny, sort of. He describes again his clinical observation of the play of pubescent children: he saw girls building low enclosures, that contained more people than the high towers the boys built. This suggested to him that women have a heightened sense of inner space and nurturing, partly derived from anatomy. He still thinks...
Explaining his views on women to TIME Correspondent Ruth Galvin last week, Erikson added: "At the moment, of course, women are sensitive to any reiteration of sexual differences, as if we were trying to put them in their place. I think the energies which so far have been primarily concentrated on nurturing and on maternity can certainly be widened to apply to collective things, to a kind of vision of the world. But as I say in the book, I honestly believe that men's way of doing things has led to a number of dead ends. For women...