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An 8 page research paper that discusses Erikson's model of personality development, with a particular focus on adolescent development and how it interrelates with the other stages. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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in adolescence, while Eriksons model envisions personality as continuing to development throughout ones lifetime (Holme, et al, 1972). In his elaboration and extension of the Freudian perspective, Erikson recast Freuds
stages of development in "psychosocial terms," as he emphasizes the socio-cultural effects of interactions between the "instinct-governed child" and the childs environment (Holme, et al, 1972, p. 426).
Erikson identifies the major developmental crisis of adolescence as the search for identity. Nevertheless, Eriksons theoretical position does not suggest that this crisis exists in isolation from the other seven
that make-up his model of personality development. The following discussion of Erikson and his developmental model discusses how the identity crisis of adolescence is both affected by the crises that
precede it and also has an effect on the crises that come afterwards. General Introduction to Eriksons Model A basic tenet of Freudian psychology is that the relationship between
instinctual behavior and the environment is characterized by conflict. Contrasting this position, Erikson posits that personality development results from "an encounter between the drives of a child and the demands
of society" Holme, et al, 1972, p. 426). He identifies eight stages of development, each stage having its own crisis/challenge that must be successfully negotiated in order to successfully address
the crises facing the individual at subsequent stages. Each individual must, basically, "pass eight great tests" and anticipation of these tests can have a direct influence on "the outcome of
a crisis at any one stage," with this outcome, in turn, influencing later events Holme, et al, 1972, p. 426). In describing the tasks involved in succeeding at each developmental
crisis, Erikson wrote that each stage involves "incipient growth and awareness in a significant part function goes together with the shift instinctual energy and yet causes specific vulnerability in that
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