Erik Erickson

Erik Erickson's model of an eight-stage developmental framework for the psychological development of the individual is predicated on the idea that each person must master certain cognitive and emotional skills and pass through a psychological crisis at each stage to move on to the next stage. This movement from stage to stage is an all-or-nothing process. However, the character of Ben in Robert Cormier's novel After the First Death seems to combine elements of several stages of Erickson's model. However, his characteristics seem most typical of a younger age group, the middle-childhood period that Erickson refers to as the period in which individuals struggle over the competing claims of "industry" and "inferiority" although he also has a number of attributes of the next step in Erickson's model, the adolescent phase of "identity versus identity confusion".

During the first of these phases of development (that of late childhood), according to Erickson, individuals are struggling to gain a sense o

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