Identity: Youth And Crisis
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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What does it mean to know who you are? In Identity: Youth and Crisis, the legendary developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson confronts one of the most profound questions of human existence, arguing that the formation of a stable identity is the central psychological challenge of adolescence and young adulthood. Drawing on his landmark theory of psychosocial development, Erikson chronicles the inner struggles of youth — the conflicts between self and society, belonging and alienation, continuity and change — that culminate in what he famously termed the identity crisis. A cornerstone of 20th-century psychological and sociological thought, this work presents Erikson's mature synthesis of ideas first introduced in Childhood and Society, now deepened and broadened in scope. His prose is both clinically rigorous and humanistically warm, bridging the worlds of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and social theory with rare elegance. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that shape the self — and the cultural conditions that can either nurture or fracture it — this landmark text remains as urgently relevant as the day it was written.
Author: Erik H. Erikson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Faber & Faber
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to know who you are? In Identity: Youth and Crisis, the legendary developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson confronts one of the most profound questions of human existence, arguing that the formation of a stable identity is the central psychological challenge of adolescence and young adulthood. Drawing on his landmark theory of psychosocial development, Erikson chronicles the inner struggles of youth — the conflicts between self and society, belonging and alienation, continuity and change — that culminate in what he famously termed the identity crisis. A cornerstone of 20th-century psychological and sociological thought, this work presents Erikson's mature synthesis of ideas first introduced in Childhood and Society, now deepened and broadened in scope. His prose is both clinically rigorous and humanistically warm, bridging the worlds of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and social theory with rare elegance. For anyone seeking to understand the forces that shape the self — and the cultural conditions that can either nurture or fracture it — this landmark text remains as urgently relevant as the day it was written.