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...heroes of today's amateur psychologizers is Harvard's Erik Erikson, perhaps the most influential of the new generation of builders upon Freudian foundations. Erikson is known for his study of the life cycle ("the eight ages of man") and for his work on the problem of identity, by which he means the bewilderment of youth as it witnesses the confusion of modern man. For this modern man is uncertain of his place in society, with his old roles as husband, father and guardian of tradition diminished in favor of his work-and his work less and less...
...disgruntled seniors not admitted to Social Sciences 139, Erikson's course on the Human Life Cycle. This has provoked me, usually not an outspoken student, to complaint. It is all right to limit a course by class or prerequisites, as long as all qualified people who want to take it are admitted. But it is a huge absurdity that a university of the size and affluence of Harvard must limit a course like Soc Sci 139 because of lack of staff, room, and money. Students can be rejected only arbitrarily, and the injustice of this is not merely institutional...
...course in the human life cycle is not found anywhere else in the world, certainly not given by a man as charming and human as Erik Erikson. Some of us have waited three years to be able to take the course, and we missed. Coming here to learn something about ourselves and the world around us, and wanting to luxuriate in a course that has some relevance to us as college students and intelligent human beings, are we to be faced with the impregnable doors of 2 Divinity Ave.? We are left like Tantalus panting after grapes we cannot have...
...Erikson has apologized for the impossibility of the situation; he would gladly lecture to the whole university if it would listen. He even had the room changed to accommodate 70 more people, but still some were left...
...matter what Erikson section men may say, until senior year having an identity crisis is just an excuse for problems like breaking up with your high school girl because she wore white gloves all through Jubilee weekend, even the night you went to the Waldorf. The real identity crisis is produced by the questions asked on senior applications--"The Curriculum Vitae should be a picture of yourself as an individual...