Essay - Erik Erikson's Developmental Stages Maura is a Highly Intelligent Young...

Erik Erikson's Developmental Stages

Maura is a highly intelligent young woman, but she has sometimes seemed to be unsure of herself. Her mother, who ***** from Ireland, had another child two years after Maura, and another two ***** after that one. ***** is the eldest and her brother is in the middle. She probably got through the first three stages ***** life pretty well, ***** not perfectly. She doesn't seem to always trust herself, relying on the opinions of others about her boyfriend, for example. So perhaps in the ********** stage, Maura did not receive all the certainty and comfort she needed. Maura's mot***** ***** to raise three *****ren by ***** after Maura's father died when Maura was nine. Even if Maura did experience total security and certainty as an inf*****t, perhaps her *****'s death was unsettling. Self-esteem *****s to ***** an issue at times. Whether something happened ***** change ***** during the time she ***** a toddler is unknown. However, she was a ***** when her brother was born. It is difficult to say whether Maura had any events in her ***** ***** ***** was doing ***** the pre-school stage, developing initi*****ive vs. guilt. But ***** recent attitude *****ward her ***** (not mentioned by Maura, but by mutual friends) would lead to the conclusion that she did not, in fact, complete ***** stage and ***** now riddled with guilt. ***** it seems to be transferred *****, as she nags her bro*****r constantly.

Of course, the same commentators have mentioned that he ***** taken, for a few years, a holier-than-thou att*****ude toward ***** because she enjoyed party*****g when she was in college, and, in fact, engaged in quite a bit of underage drinking. ***** also seemed likely to follow ***** crowd rather than initiating her own plans. ***** sexual identity was also under construction; her mother revealed that the boyfriend she had for her final year of ***** was unorthodox in his approach ***** sexual relations.

He was also a bully *****nd frequently made Maura cry. But she *****n't see any of that until friends and ***** family pointed it out to her. Some ***** her friends, the ones ***** ***** ***** college, saw nothing wrong w*****h him, or with spending all their money in bars. Erikson believed that a preschooler ***** ***** ********** th*****t the activities he or s***** initiated were not valuable might carry that into later life, and the fact that Maura i***** very unlikely to initiate activities, but ***** follow *****, suggests ***** might have been ***** case. On the ot***** hand, her entire family is relatively passive in that way, and rarely initiates activities, although *****y are glad to be invited to things ***** generally have a good ***** when they go. R*****ly, M*****ura will suggest something, ***** ***** also mirrors her family's behavior. Her brother is the most likely to suggest doing *****.

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