A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the sam… - Erik Erikson

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A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the same time intimately related to his most personal conflicts, to his superior selective perception, and to the stubbornness of his one-way will; he must court sickness, failure, or insanity in order to test the alternative whether the established world will crush him, or whether he will disestablish a sector of this world's outworn fundaments and make place for a new one.

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About Erik Erikson

Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis.

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Native Name: Erik Homburger Erikson
Alternative Names: Erik H. Erikson
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