ERIK ERIKSON'S THEORY OF IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

tiry crisis as weIl as the philosophical and psychoanalytic foundation of the concept in "Au-tobiog;raphic Notes on the Identity Crisis" (1970). ln his famous chapter, "Eight Stages of Man," Erikson (1950) modifies and expands the Freudian stages of psychosexual development by placing much greater emphasis on the so-cial context of development.

  Development, Concept, Psychosexual, Freudian, Psychosexual development