Erik Erikson Quotes

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Doubt is the brother of shame.
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
I am what survives of me.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
We are what we love.
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Erik Erikson
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Psychologist
BirthDate
15 June, 1902
DeathDate
12 May, 1994
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