Sentences with phrase «for generativity»

Harding makes a compelling case for generativity as the key to understanding Falwell's — and fundamentalism's — continuing appeal.

As personal identity is the foundation of marital intimacy, marital identity and intimacy are the bases for generativity.

Not exact matches

Most important, self - investment — in social action and service - to - others — extends the period of «generativity» for the couple, helping them avoid ingrownness and the stagnation of increasing self - absorption.

It is during this stage and the subsequent three stages, that the primary developmental task (for adults), (what Erik Erikson calls «generativity») is to generate new life and to pour one's energies into the stream of history by investing in the new generation.

It involves developing a life - style of «generativity» — psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's apt term for generating life in the ongoing stream of society — living in terms of the growth needs of the family of man.

It is also a second - chance stage, when partially unfinished developmental tasks may be completed as a foundation for the life tasks of the three adult stages — intimacy (emotional and sexual) in young adulthood, generativity (being a generator or creator) in the middle years, and ego integrity (making peace with life) in the older adult years.

Erik Erikson (who coined the term generativity) sees the development of generativity as the central life task and challenge in these years: «In this stage, a man and a woman must have defined for themselves what and whom they come to care for, what they can do well, and how they plan to take care of what they have started and created.»

For a discussion of intimacy and generativity see Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), pp. 263 - 268.

As Erik Erikson observes, the achievement of intimacy in young adulthood provides essential equipment for handling the life task of the next period, generativity.

To implement our concern for the survival of a livable planet, we must make our circles of generativity more and more inclusive.