Quotes About Erikson

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.

No doubt there's a tale there.' 'Indeed, but it's not relevant.' 'Meaning you don't know it.' 'Precisely.

Barring the necessary brains, of course," Kruppe said, "which is my true skill—though one such as Coll would never understand such abilities, alien as they are to him.

You weep for this, Trull Sengar, because your love has not been answered, and there is no greater anguish than that.

Arrogance. A vice of being undead, Toc the Younger.

But, as Onos Toolan might say, the real meaning of 'tradition' was … what had he called it? 'Stupidity on purpose', that's what he said. I think. I never much listened.

Mesh'arn tho'ledann: the Day of Pure Blood.

They resumed their journey. Tracking the aimless with purpose. Just like growing up.

Misery loves - needs - company. There is nothing altruistic in sharing.

Beware the women who demand money after playing with your penis. They understand nothing of privilege.

If I am their god, why don't they listen to anything I say? " "Maybe they are but waiting for you to say the right thing." "Really? And what would that be, you fat oaf?" "Well, whatever it is they want to hear, of course.

Varandas squatted opposite Hood. 'What are you doing?' 'I am ending time' 'No wonder it's taking so long.

Paran flicked his gaze to his weapon, glared back up and around at the warriors, then his eyes returned to Chance. And stayed there.

Your reputation puts civility far down your list of skills, Claw.' 'It's a most cherished trait of mine that sees far too little opportunity for exercise these fell days, Lieutenant.

A CORKSCREW PLUME of dust raced across the basin, heading deeper into the trackless desert of the Pan'potsun Odhan.

Erikson felt that the early childhood years were critical in children's development of trust, autonomy

I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, a turning point for better or worse (p. 139).

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. ERIK ERIKSON

Erikson maintained that, in later years, we experience a sense of integrity if we believe we have lived meaningful lives. This sense of integrity gives us a feeling of completeness so that we can better accept our approaching deaths. But if we have unresolved regrets about the past—if we think that we made poor choices or failed to accomplish important goals—we feel depressed and hopeless, which leads us to despair.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.