Goksøyr & Martens

Erikson’s central thesis is that the progression from one life stage to another constitutes a challenge to one’s sense of perspective and predictability. You can lose the feeling of being in control of your life, and when this happens – if you feel that your earlier beliefs no longer apply – you experience it as painful. If, moreover, these fateful changes occur as a consequence of events you have not personally chosen, your sense of failure is further reinforced.

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Erikson’s central thesis is that the progression from one life stage to another constitutes a challenge to one’s sense of perspective and predictability. You can lose the feeling of being in control of your life, and when this happens – if you feel that your earlier beliefs no longer apply – you experience it as painful. If, moreover, these fateful changes occur as a consequence of events you have not personally chosen, your sense of failure is further reinforced.

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