The Future of Identity Centennial Reflections on the Legacy of Erik Erikson

by Hoover, Kenneth; Coles, Robert; Erickson, Lena Klintbjer; Friedman, Lawrence M.; Hoover, Kenneth; Kinnvall, Catarina; Kreidie, Lina; Kroger, Jane; Marcia, James; Monroe, Kristen

• ISBN13: 9780739108024
• ISBN10: 0739108026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Erik Erikson's lifetime of clinical and interdisciplinary work on human development centered on the formation and maintenance of identity among people of diverse backgrounds. In this volume key scholars of identity from various disciplines, some who knew and worked with Erikson, discuss and assess his legacy. Truly trans-disciplinary in scope Erikson and his scholarship begs to be revisited by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and students of cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter One-Introduction: The Future of Identity	1	(16)
Kenneth Hoover and Lena Klintbjer Ericksen, Western Washington University
Part One-Origins
Chapter Two-Remembering Erik	17	(6)
Robert Coles, Harvard University
Chapter Three-Erik Erikson: A Biographer's Reflections on a Decade-Long Process	23	(20)
Lawrence Friedman, Indiana University
Part Two-Testing, Learning, Innovating
Chapter Four-Why Erikson?	43	(18)
James Marcia, Simon Fraser University
Chapter Five-Identity in Formation	61	(16)
Jane Kroger, University of Tromso
Chapter Six-Identity and Choice	77	(20)
Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California-Irvine
Part Three-The Future
Chapter Seven-What Should Democracies Do about Identity?	97	(14)
Kenneth Hoover, Western Washington University
Chapter Eight-Globalization, Identity, and the Search for Chosen Traumas	111	(26)
Catarina Kinnvall, Lund University
Chapter Nine-Religion and Identity: Deciphering the Construals of Islamic Fundamentalism	137	(30)
Lina Haddad Kreidie, University of California-Irvine
Index	167	(4)
About the Contributors	171