Word: eriksonian
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...Loneliness," as Graham Blaine's article makes clear, is chiefly "related to the third basic task of the young adult-the achievement of intimacy and the avoidance of isolation Intimate relationships in the Eriksonian sense, cannot be established until identity formation is complete. Intimacy occurs, according to Erikson, when two people of the opposite sex share trust which enables them to develop individual and mutual patterns of work, procreation and recreation. A feeling of the need for achievement of such relationship usually follows quickly upon the attainment of identity, and opportunities for gaining it should be easily found...
...Alitto, Liang's early life is a parable of psychiatric disorder, in which Liang's dizzying rush through a Western, and Indian, and finally a Chinese Confucian stage provide a microcosm of China's search for a culture to serve in the modern era. Alitto uses Eriksonian analysis to ascribe to Liang a crisis of identity, and then claims that Liang projected "his own encounter with meaninglessness onto China's cultural dilemma...
...those modern diseases. But, like all modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...
...those modern diseases. But, like all modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...
...Eriksonian Psychologist...
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