Erik Erikson and the American Psyche Ego,

Ego, Ethics and Evolution is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis.

Daniel Burston chairs the Department of Psychology at Duquesne University.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
In Hitler's Shadow	p. 1
Sages, Psychoanalysts, and the Public Sphere	p. 1
Childhood and Adolescence	p. 3
Anna Freud, Analytic Training, and Disappointment in Denmark	p. 15
The New World	p. 21
The Impossible Profession	p. 21
An American Identity	p. 27
The End of the Beginning: Middle Age and Its Vicissitudes	p. 30
From Berkeley to Stockbridge	p. 38
In His Own Voice	p. 41
A Crisis of Integrity	p. 49
Erikson at Harvard	p. 49
A Christmas Carol	p. 54
Existentialism, Judaism, and Christianity	p. 57
Conscience, Aggression, and Civil Disobedience	p. 62
On Ablation: The Berman Episode	p. 66
Situating Erikson	p. 81
Beyond Ego Psychology	p. 81
Innovation and Fidelity to Freud in Erikson, Klein, Fromm, Winnicott, and Lacan	p. 89
Psychohistory-Luther and Gandhi	p. 99
History and Psychohistory	p. 99
Why Luther?	p. 106
Luther in Context	p. 110
Why Gandhi?	p. 117
Sex and Aggression in Luther and Gandhi	p. 120
Mother-and Father-Centered Devotional Types	p. 125
Gandhi as Prophet	p. 131
Gandhi, Freud, and Erikson	p. 133
Evolution and Conscience in Darwin, Freud, and Erikson	p. 137
Instinct, Adaptation, and Progress	p. 137
Conformity, Conscience, and Pseudospeciation	p. 143
Family, Tradition, and the Cycle of Generations	p. 154
Technology, Identity, and the Decline of Intergenerational Ties	p. 158
The Historicity of Dreams-Freud, Fliess, and Jung	p. 169
The Clash of Interpretations	p. 169
Freud, Friendship, and the Fear of Death	p. 170
Men, Women, and Professional Identity	p. 174
Rivalry, Plagiarism, and Oedipal Evasiveness	p. 183
Inner, Outer, and In-between	p. 188
Erikson's Erasure	p. 191
Irrelevance and the Academy	p. 191
Childhood in America: Then and Now	p. 193
Human Nature, Human Needs, and Technological Change	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 213
About the Author	p. 219
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