The Human Life Cycle
The Traditional Hindu View and the Psychology of Erik Erikson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5844523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kakar (0000-0001-7932-1947, corresponding author), Sudhir Kakar |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-127 |
| Publication date | 1968-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1398255 |
| OpenAlex | W2314600794 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN psychoanalysis, especially in its emphasis on ego strengths (Heinz Hartmann) or basic virtues (Erik Erikson), show a startling affinity to the Hindu asrama (stages of life) theory. Though the phases of human development, like infancy, adolescence, etc., have been studied both by academic psychology and by psychoanalysis, the study of the individual life cycle as a functional whole and as a link in the chain of has been comparatively rare. Erikson has been the first psychoanalyst to treat this approach systematically. Erikson sees human development not as a continuum, but as a series of predetermined steps or stages by which the individual seeks contact in an ever-widening radius with his society, which welcomes and regulates his unfolding. Each phase of this development has a turning point, a crisis, which poses the solution of a specific task-a solution which is prepared in the preceding stages and is worked out further in the succeeding ones. The relative solution of each crisis in turn is the source of a specific psycho-social strength which is both the individual's heritage from and contribution to the succession of generations and to society's institutions. Erikson thus speaks of eight stages of man
Age Stratification
Analysis of Hermaphroditism in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
Parental Influence in Sharp Objects and The Silent Patient
Allegory of the Human Condition
The universal significance of Maslow’s concept of self-actualization
Decolonizing epistemologies of the global South
For a sociology of India
Self-Fashioning of Colonial and Renunciatory Masculinity
Triguna (Sattva, Rajasa and Tamasa) Personality Traits and Karma Yoga
Debates on Domesticity and the Position of Women in Late Colonial India
Children and young people's emotions of migration across Asia
Whose place? Lessons from a case study of a guardianship determination for an Australian Indigenous child
Spiritual community in later life
Religious Faith Across the Life Span
The Psychosocial Development of Children
The psychoanalysis between the dynamic individual unconscious and the cultural unconscious
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2026 (46) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |