Contents

 

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Preface

     I. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Dorothy Burlingham’s School in Vienna (1980) WITH JOAN M. ERIKSON

Psychoanalysis and the Future of Education (1930)

Children’s Picture Books (1931) TRANSLATED BY JOACHIM NEUGROSCHEL

The Fate of the Drives in School Compositions (1931) TRANSLATED BY INGE SCHNEIER HOFFMAN

Anna Freud—Reflections (1983)

   II. CONFIGURATIONS IN PLAY AND DREAMS

Configurations in Play—Clinical Notes (1937)

Studies in the Interpretation of Play: Clinical Observation of Play Disruption in the Young Children (1940)

The Dream Specimen of Psychoanalysis (1954)

Sex Differences in the Play Configurations of American Preadolescents (1955)

Play and Actuality (1972)

  III. WAR MEMORANDA

On Nazi Mentality (1940)

A Memorandum Concerning the Interrogation of German Prisoners of War (1943)

Comments on Hitler’s Speech of September 30, 1942 (1942)

Comments on Anti-Nazi Propaganda (1945)

A Memorandum to the Joint Committee on Post War Planning (1945)

  IV. CROSS-CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: THE COMMUNAL ENVIRONMENT

Observations on the Yurok: Childhood and World Image (1943)

Childhood and Tradition in Two American Indian Tribes (1945)

Psychoanalysis and Ongoing History: Problems of Identity, Hatred and Nonviolence (1965)

Remarks on the “Wider Identity” (1966)

Environment and Virtues (1972)

Thoughts on the City for Human Development (1973)

Reflections on Activity, Recovery and Growth (1976)

    V. THOUGHTS ON THE LIFE CYCLE

Problems of Infancy and Early Childhood (1940)

The Power of the Newborn (1953) WITH JOAN M. ERIKSON

The Ontogeny of Ritualization in Man (1966)

The Human Life Cycle (1968)

  VI. REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY, YOUTH, AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD

Plans for the Returning Veteran with Symptoms of Instability (1945)

Statement to the Committee on Privilege and Tenure of the University of California Concerning the California Loyalty Oath (1951)

The Confirmation of the Delinquent (1957) WITH KAI T. ERIKSON

Late Adolescence (1959)

A Memorandum on Identity and Negro Youth (1964)

On the Potential of Women (1965)

Memorandum for the Conference on the Draft (1968)

Psychosocial Identity (1968)

On Student Unrest: Remarks on Receiving the Foneme Prize (1969)

On Protest and Affirmation (1972)

 VII. PORTRAIT SKETCHES

Peter Blos: Reminiscences (1974)

For Joseph Wheelwright—My Jungian Friend (1982)

Ruth Benedict: A Memorial (1949)

For Larry Frank’s Anniversary—the Couple Who Came to Dinner (1965) WITH JOAN M. ERIKSON

Words for Paul Tillich (1966)

For Marian C. Putnam (1971) WITH JOANM. ERIKSON

Mary Sarvis—a Few Words of Testimony (1972)

Robert P. Knight: By Way of a Memoir (1972)

VIII. CONFIGURATIONS OF HUMAN POTENTIAL

Acceptance of the National Book Award for Gandhi’s Truth (1970)

Words at Delos (1971)

Landing on the Moon (1969)

Bibliography: The Complete Writings of Erik H. Erikson (1930–1985)

Index