Sentences with phrase «generativity as»

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.»

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

Not exact matches

In positing as part of his psychological theory of man an immortalizing impulse, Lifton comes close to the concepts of «generativity» and «care» as developed by his former teacher in the psychohistorical method, Erik Erikson.

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

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.

Psychologist Erik Erikson describes the developmental task of adulthood as «generativity vs. stagnation.»

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

His work addresses the question of immateriality in art, as well as the logic induced by the computer, such as hybridisation, generativity and interactivity.

One could also take a more optimistic view that people don't tend to join organizations and societies until they get older — similar to what Erikson described as the generativity phase of human development.