Word: erikson
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Coles credits psychoanalyst Erik Erikson for inspiring him to become a teacher. After returning to Boston from Mississippi, Coles became a section leader for Erikson, who was then teaching at the College...
...their achievement. After all, these were the children who prepped diligently for college-aptitude exams and learned how to master Rubik's Cube and Space Invaders. They are consummate game players and grade grubbers. "Unlike yuppies, younger people are not driven from within, they need reinforcement," says Penny Erikson, 40, a senior vice president at the Young & Rubicam ad agency, which has hired many recent college graduates. "They prefer short-term tasks with observable results...
Such links also fulfill an important social function. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson invented the term "generativity" to describe the necessary transmission of life experiences from elder to younger generations. In the 1970s, anthropologist Margaret Mead prophetically wrote that an increasing lack of contact between old and young relatives would create a need for surrogate grandparents...