Erikson’s 8 ages of man please comment on one or more of his developmental stages for adult life: intimacy vs. isolation; generativity vs. stagnation; ego integrity vs. despair.
Questions that might guide your Viewpoint contributions: What do they tell us about the predictable crises of adult development? How do these crises relate to events in earlier stages of development? What is the significance of Erikson’s epigenetic model of life cycle development (covered in th last two pages of this reading)?
