ABSTRACT Erikson borrowed the concept of epigenesis from embryology to propose that optimal personality development involves a sequencing of life tasks that emerges according to a predetermined principle of readiness by the individual; one’s growing biological capacities, psychological desires, as well as social demands lead one into a broadening array of interactions with people and social institutions through the life span. Erikson assumed that the conflicts of each life stage are systematically related to those of all other life stages, with a special time of ascendancy in the life course for each, and that toward the end of each stage, a more or less lasting resolution to the conflict is found that will impact resolutions to all subsequent life stages. However, Erikson did not detail exactly how this process occurs. Case studies are presented to illustrate how identity and ongoing psychosocial stages of adult development appear to co-develop, and suggestions for future studies of the epigenesis of identity are proposed.

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身份的后生——它意味着什么？

摘要 Erikson 从胚胎学中借用了表观发生的概念，提出最佳人格发展涉及根据个人预先确定的准备原则出现的一系列生活任务；一个人不断增长的生理能力、心理欲望以及社会需求会导致一个人在一生中与人和社会机构的互动范围不断扩大。埃里克森假设每个生命阶段的冲突与所有其他生命阶段的冲突都有系统的联系，每个生命阶段都有一个特殊的上升时期，并且在每个阶段结束时，或多或少会持久解决问题。发现冲突将影响对所有后续生命阶段的解决。然而，埃里克森没有详细说明这个过程是如何发生的。