Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index.
Contents:
In Hitler's shadow -- Sages, psychoanalysts, and the public sphere -- Childhood and adolescence -- Anna Freud, analytic training and disappointment in Denmark -- The new world -- The impossible profession -- An American identity -- The end of the beginning : middle age and its vicissitudes -- From Berkeley to stockbridge -- In his own voice -- A crisis of integrity -- Erikson at Harvard -- A Christmas carol -- Existentialism, Judaism and Christianity -- Conscience, aggression, and civil disobedience -- On ablation : the Berman episode -- Situating Erikson -- Beyond ego psychology -- Innovation and fidelity to Freud in Erikson, Klein, Fromm, Winnicott, and Lacan -- Psychohistory : Luther and Gandhi -- History and psychohistory -- Why Luther? -- Luther in context -- Why Gandhi? -- Sex and aggression in Luther and Gandhi -- Mother- and father-centered devotional types -- Gandhi as prophet -- Gandhi, Freud, and Erikson -- Evolution and conscience in Darwin, Freud, and Erikson -- Instinct, adaptation, and progress -- Conformity, conscience, and pseudospeciation -- Family, tradition, and the cycle of generations -- Technology, identity, and the decline of intergenerational ties -- The historicity of dreams : Freud, Fliess, and Jung -- The clash of interpretations -- Freud, friendship, and the fear of death -- Men, women, and professional identity -- Rivalry, plagiarism, and Oedipal evasiveness -- Inner, outer, and in-between -- Erikson's erasure -- Irrelevance and the academy -- Childhood in America : then and now -- Human nature, human needs, and technological change.
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