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Archaeology & Anthropology: Open Access

Erik Erikson on Negative Identity & Pseudospeciation- Extended and Particularized by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Open or Close Friedman LJ1* and De Medeiros PD2

    1 Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, USA

    2 University of Azores, Portugal

    *Corresponding author:Friedman LJ, Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/ Behavior Initiative, USA

Submission: March 11, 2019; Published: March 22, 2019

DOI: 10.31031/AAOA.2019.03.000575

ISSN: 2577-1949
Volume3 Issue2

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One can feel challenged in this chilling time when sundry variations of ultra-nationalism have become quite discernable in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. They have often taken the form of a rhetoric of fear and hatred toward “undesirables.” In this time of trouble in an increasingly nuclearized world, it is well to turn to Erik Erikson. His related concepts of “negative identity” and “pseudospeciation” need to be addressed more fully than they have in recent decades.

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