Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: June 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994
Birthday: June 15
Death: May 12
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.
source: Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Group Identity, Growing Children