RT Article
T1 Mother, Melancholia, and Play in Erik H. Erikson's Childhood and Society
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 46
IS 4
SP 591
OP 606
A1 Capps, Donald 1939-
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1668859475
AB In an earlier article on Erik H. Erikson's earliest writings (Capps, 2007), I focused on the relationship between the child's melancholia and conflict with maternal authority, and drew attention to the restorative role of humor. In this article, I discuss two of the three chapters in part three, "The Growth of the Ego," of Erikson's first major book, Childhood and Society [Erikson, Childhood and society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1950, Childhood and society (rev. edition). New York: W. W. Norton, 1963]. I explore the same theme of the relationship of melancholia and the mother, but focus on the restorative role of play. I interpret the differences between the two cases in light of Sigmund Freud's essay, "Mourning and Melancholia" [Freud, Mourning and melancholia. In S. Freud, General psychological theory (pp. 164-179). P. Rieff (ed.). New York: Collier Books. 1963].
K1 Children
K1 Ego-mastery
K1 Erik H. Erikson
K1 Games
K1 Melancholia
K1 Mother
K1 Mourning
K1 Play
K1 Schizophrenia
K1 Sigmund Freud
DO 10.1007/s10943-007-9123-4