Write 5 pages thesis on the topic the psychosocial theory of erik erikson. Erikson was viewed to be ‘the most important’ person to have contributed to knowing some of the developments in the early years of a man’s life. Such significant developments coincide, not just with the physical state of a man being perceived as a toddler or an adult, but also with the ability of the toddler or the adult to think and act based on what a toddler or an adult thinks. He believed that in every action man makes corresponds to inert thinking, which was influenced by some events that had happened in the past and the culture where one belongs (Berk, 2006, p. 18. Douvan, 1997, p. 15). A prominent psychoanalyst just like Erikson, Sigmund Freud was the one who first initiated the whole idea into a study and made a point that such developments were basically driven by one’s hidden and innate pleasures that are then guided with the rationality of thinking when one becomes mature, and also by the so-called “conscience” is the man’s highest thinking capability (Berk, 2006, p. 17). Consequently, Erikson’s psychosocial theory emerged when he intently thought that although Freud was correct with his notion about motivating the occurrence of man’s significant developments, those motivating factors Freud had pointed out, for Erikson, are not enough. Erikson, in his theory, had stressed the presence of “positive” motivation, coining that it is not just the man’s sense of right or wrong or his/her innate pleasures as a way for changes to occur, but an individual is driven to change because everyone must contribute something to the society (Berk, 2006, p. 18).

Being psychoanalytic in nature, the psychosocial theory suggests that to know two contrasting ideas present in every period of man’s development and identify which of the ideas are suited to the&nbsp.