Erik Erikson Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

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

  Erik Erikson

  Feelings, Identity, Alive

  ERIK H. ERIKSON (1968). “Identity Youth and Crisis”

• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

• When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

  Erik Erikson

  War, Mean, Men

  "The Problem of Ego Identity", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.

• The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

  Erik Erikson

  Self, Identity, Ability

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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