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...Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category for his book Gandhi's Truth yesterday...
...Erikson's prize of $1000 was one of 15 announced by Columbia University President Androw W. Cordier in New York. The 54th annual awards, established by the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, were chosen by the trustees of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Advisory Board on Pulitzer Prizes...
Gandhi's Truth. which won both the National Book Award and the Melcher Award earlier in the year, is Erikson's psycho-historical inquiry into the origins of Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of militant non-violence...
ATHIRD contributor raises some nasty Freudian questions about radical youth. Erik Erikson postulates that youth is a kind of "psychological moratorium," during which young people are entitled to experiment with styles of behavior, and utopian models of human society, without being held accountable. Youth experiments with the Marxist model, putting itself in the role of the proletariat, or with the Gandhian model, putting itself in the role of the non-violent, oppressed colonial, and thus becomes part of the "revolt of the dependent." Youth in development is dependent upon society, as are colonials and the proletariat, and to be dependent...
...Erikson, a leader in the field of psychoanalysis, has also written Childhood and Society and Young Man Luther...