Streamlined Smiles

Rosemary Dinnage

  • Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik Erikson by Lawrence Friedman
    Free Association, 592 pp, £15.95, May 1999, ISBN 1 85343 471 X

Psychoanalysts and psychologists have always done it: construct the final theory about human nature around their own problems in life. Few did so more strikingly than Erik Erikson, ‘identity’s architect’ as he is rather grandiosely titled by Lawrence Friedman: he made identity his key concept because it was something he was deprived of in a dramatic way. To the end of his days, he had no idea who his father was.

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