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...might well have anticipated is whether uncommitment might not be a temporary phase. The sort of self doubt and inner fragmentation which his subjects experienced can easily be seen as a severe identity crisis, as a former head section man in Soc. Sci. 139--like Keniston--should know. Erik Erikson's view of the life cycle makes such a crisis routine--a necessary prelude to adult identity and commitment. At one point, Keniston seems to acknowledge this possibility, yet he never incorporates it into the mainstream of his analysis...
...beginning of his book, Keniston acknowledges a debt to "three extraordinarily wise teachers: Henry A. Murray, David Riesman, and Erik H. Erikson...
...From Henry Murray, I learned something of the enriching complexity of human needs and Imagination; Riesman increased my understanding of the power of social setting and social pressure to shape men's character and dreams; from Erikson, I gained greater insight into the interweaving of the developmental, the social, and the historical...
Robert Coles was trained as a child psychiatrist, and is now engaged in research with a base at the University Health Services. He also teaches a section of Professor Erik Erikson's undergraduate course, "The Human Life Cycle." His office is in the basement of a nondescript Harvard building. It is filled with books from the social sciences, poetry, and fiction, and the walls are covered with pictures of Southern school children and migrant workers. He writes more articles, of consistently high quality, than any man I know...
After trying to dissuade some of them, Erikson said that all the seniors would be admitted and that juniors would fill "the extra places." But the only extras in the course, it transpired yesterday, would be extra sections...