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 | | The psychosocial theory of development outlines a life cycle of eight stages, in each of which a positive eao cruality (such as basic trust) must outweigh a negative one (such as basic mistrust) to permit the development of a virtue (such as hoipe). |
 | | Erikson elaborated in a paper entitled "Ego Development and Historical Chance," in which he argued that racism and joblessness could effect the mind at the deepest layers of the unconscious and that social and historical factors contributed heavily to an ego's strength or weakness. |
 | | Erikson considers teaching, writing, invention, the arts and sciences, social activism, and generally contributing to the welfare of future generations to be generativity as well -- anything, in fact, that satisfies that old "need to be needed." Stagnation, on the other hand, is self-absorption, caring for no-one. |
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