Erik Erikson And The American Psyche Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
In Hitler's Shadow     1
Sages, Psychoanalysts, and the Public Sphere     1
Childhood and Adolescence     3
Anna Freud, Analytic Training, and Disappointment in Denmark     15
The New World     21
The Impossible Profession     21
An American Identity     27
The End of the Beginning: Middle Age and Its Vicissitudes     30
From Berkeley to Stockbridge     38
In His Own Voice     41
A Crisis of Integrity     49
Erikson at Harvard     49
A Christmas Carol     54
Existentialism, Judaism, and Christianity     57
Conscience, Aggression, and Civil Disobedience     62
On Ablation: The Berman Episode     66
Situating Erikson     81
Beyond Ego Psychology     81
Innovation and Fidelity to Freud in Erikson, Klein, Fromm, Winnicott, and Lacan     89
Psychohistory-Luther and Gandhi     99
History and Psychohistory     99
Why Luther?     106
Luther in Context     110
Why Gandhi?     117
Sex and Aggression in Luther and Gandhi     120
Mother-and Father-Centered Devotional Types     125
Gandhi as Prophet     131
Gandhi, Freud, and Erikson     133
Evolution and Conscience in Darwin, Freud, and Erikson     137
Instinct, Adaptation, and Progress     137
Conformity, Conscience, and Pseudospeciation     143
Family, Tradition, and the Cycle of Generations     154
Technology, Identity, and the Decline of Intergenerational Ties     158
The Historicity of Dreams-Freud, Fliess, and Jung     169
The Clash of Interpretations     169
Freud, Friendship, and the Fear of Death     170
Men, Women, and Professional Identity     174
Rivalry, Plagiarism, and Oedipal Evasiveness     183
Inner, Outer, and In-between     188
Erikson's Erasure     191
Irrelevance and the Academy     191
Childhood in America: Then and Now     193
Human Nature, Human Needs, and Technological Change     195
Bibliography     203
Index     213
About the Author     219