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...exciting critical handiwork. But what one asks most from the biography-the anecdotes, the psychology, the flesh, the sheer literary gossip which would go a long way toward taking Stevens out of the half-light of his insurance office-is missing. It's not that the tools are unavailable: Erikson's book on Gandhi, Walter Jackson Bate's on Keats. Nancy Milford's on Zelda Fitzgerald, and Harold Bloom's book on Yeats all point toward the enormous possiblities of life studies. Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life leaves the biographical task simply and sadly undone...
Most psychologists have simply ignored the process of aging. Says Harvard's Erik Erikson: "It is astonishing to behold how (until quite recently and with a few notable exceptions) Western psychology has avoided looking at the whole of life. As our world image is a one-way street to never-ending progress, interrupted only by small and big catastrophes, our lives are to be one-way streets to success - and sudden oblivion." But lately Erikson and oth,er psychiatrists have become interested in all stages of man's development, and the "aging" that goes on at every stage...
...middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life, for in the secret hour of life's midday the parabola is reversed, death is born. We grant goal and purpose to the ascent of life, why not to the descent?" Erik Erikson agrees: "Any span of the cycle lived without vigorous meaning, at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end, endangers the sense of life and the meaning of death in all whose life stages are intertwined...
Whenever he comes to an intellectual celebrity, Braden, an indefatigable interviewer, jumps out of the bus and, in effect, braces him. What's wrong with America? The mike is yours, Erik (Identity Crisis) Erikson, or Bruno (The Children of the Dream) Bettelheim, or Christopher (The Agony of the American Left) Lasch, or Kenneth (Young Radicals) Keniston...
...Erikson, who received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1960, gained fame by his introduction of the "identity-crisis" concept...