Erikson

American  

[er-ik-suhn] / ˈɛr ɪk sən /

noun

1. Erik (Homburger) 1902–94, U.S. psychoanalyst, born in Germany.

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Example Sentences

There is evidence to suggest that Leif Erikson, Erik’s son, went on to explore the lands around what is now New Foundland.

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Among Erikson’s lasting contributions was his identification of what he called “collective trauma.”

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We may like to think that time heals all wounds, Erikson concluded, but the long aftermath of Buffalo Creek suggested that time “can work its special therapy only if it acts in concert with a nurturing communal setting. One must look for scars, then, not only in the survivors’ minds but in the tissues of their social life as well.”

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For a sociologist, Erikson was uniquely inclined toward psychological concepts like trauma.

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Erik Erikson would become one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century, starting with his book “Children and Society” in 1950.

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