Book
Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson
The standard biography of Erik Erikson, drawing on his papers and interviews to follow his life from his uncertain parentage in Germany, through his training and analysis with Anna Freud in Vienna, to his career in the United States, and reading his theory of identity in the light of his own history.
What it shows
- 1927
Anna Freud analysed Erik Erikson
In Vienna, from about 1927 until 1933, Anna Freud analysed Erikson while he taught at the Hietzing school and trained at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute.
Sigmund Freud influenced Erik Erikson
Erikson built his eight ages on Freud's theory of libidinal stages, widening it from the body zones to the social tasks of each period of life.