Word: eriksons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firmer development to mature is opened. Above all, it integrates the individual's search for an ideological form, for the valid, underlying rituals of our society in an attempt to counteract the meaninglessness and vagueness of society's conventions and values. [Ritual is used in the sense that Erikson describes ritualization: a mutually accepted interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at intervals and in recurrent contexts and which has an adaptive value for the go of each participant--a condition fully met by the way a mother and baby greet each other in the morning. From this...
...Erik Erikson, one of the idols of this college generation (his books are required reading at 800 colleges), coined the term "identity crisis" to describe the internal revolution experienced at this time of life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever a sophisticated adolescent scents trouble from an authority figure, he tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated...
Charles F. Sabel '69 threw out for consideration at last Tuesday's meeting the possibility that the Council might dissolve if Pusey took no action on postponing the Dow visit. Erik Erikson, professor of Human Development, speaking for the Dow motion at that meeting said that the Council was confronting the Administration by requesting a postponement. "We are asking why they established this Council and then ignore the very reason of this Council's existence," he said...
...Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development, was named yesterday to take the place of Bruce Chalmers, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy, on the council. Chalmers will be in England on sabbatical next semester...
...Erik Erikson and Gar Alperovitz will hold a workshop to discuss protests against the war in Vietnam with the idea of setting up anti-war programs throughout the country over Christmas. The meeting is at 9 p.m. tonight in the Hilles Colloquium Room...