Sentences with phrase «of generativity»

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

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's most original contribution to our understanding of fundamentalism is her analysis of the process of generativity.

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«Yes, interpersonal interactions are needed to stimulate certain kinds of creativity and generativity, so isolating people in offices is clearly not a good idea,» he asserts.

It can not produce another generation; it is parasitically dependent upon the generativity of others.

«I have been endlessly amazed at the generativity of our friendship,» he declares.

It was hope and love rather than faith that seemed most clearly associated with maturity of defenses, with successful aging, and with generativity.»

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.

This anxiety is a stifling, paralyzing force unless one has developed a functional philosophy of life; a life style of «generativity» (Erikson), i.e., self - investment in the ongoing human race; and relationships of trust with at least one other person and with the Ground of Being.

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.

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

The life - style of «generativity» (Erik Erikson)-- investing self in others and the ongoingness of humankind — is essential to having the best marriages at any stage.8.

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.

Continuing life and the future well - being of Christians depends on fellowship with God, not generativity through procreation.

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.

Central to this bittersweet foreknowledge is a new dimension — or, rather, a new awareness of a hitherto invisible dimension — to the meaning of our sexual being: sex means generativity.

In the mid-years, achieving this goal usually involves couples» revitalizing their relationships by increasing their mutual growth, their sense of intentionality, and their active generativity.

The developmental task of this stage (seven) is to realize their creative potential and to achieve what Erikson calls «generativity,» the investment of themselves in the coming generation, and in the currents of education, art, and science.

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

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.

To measure our values and stretch our consciences by the challenge of inclusive generativity is to be faithful to the biblical vision of the good life.

Here are some questions derived in part from the twelve strategies in chapter 2 — which can be used to evaluate the adequacy, the generativity, of one's goals and priorities:

In that vision our caring and generativity are directed to all the children of one Creator who has made us all of one blood.

But, Derrida suggests, these kinds of speech and writing actually have their greatest power, generativity, and promise when they blow out of ruptured contexts, not settled ones.

«We are born of mothers, we had fathers, we mature, we make decisions about generativity, we think about a next generation, we face our mortality,» Turkle says.

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

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He listed the common dimensions of meaning: having a purpose or goal, living according to one's values and goals, autonomy, control, challenge, achievement, competence, mastery, commitment, engagement, generativity or service to others, self - realization, growth and fulfillment.

In general, the people who mastered adulthood's life tasks — Identity, Intimacy, Career Consolidation, Generativity, Keeper of the Meaning and Integrity — lived longer, were more fulfilled, had more friends, and were happier.

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.