• J Relig Health · Dec 2011

    Biography Historical Article

    The verbal portrait: Erik H. Erikson's contribution to psychoanalytic discourse.

    • Donald Capps.
    • Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, USA. cappsdonald@aol.com
    • J Relig Health. 2011 Dec 1; 50 (4): 880-98.

    AbstractThis article makes the case that Erik H. Erikson developed a form of psychoanalytic discourse-the verbal portrait-which, although not unprecedented, became a focal feature of his work, and the testing ground for the cogency of his major contribution to psychoanalysis (the concept of identity). It suggests that Erikson was inspired to develop the verbal portrait because he came to psychoanalysis from art and was, in fact, a portrait artist. Drawing especially on the work of Richard Brilliant, it presents the view that a portrait is a portrayal of the subject's identity and goes on to show how Erikson's memorial to the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict is representative of the verbal portrait.

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