Identity, as Erikson writes, is as incomprehensible as it is omnipresent. It concerns a process that is at the core of both the individual and the community culture. As culture changes, new questions about identity arise—Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protest and changing gender roles that were particularly prominent in the 1960s. Representing two decades of innovative work, the essays are not so much a systematic formulation of theory as an evolving report that is both clinical and theoretical. Topics range from "creative confusion" in two famous lives—the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the philosopher William James—to the connection of individual struggles with social order. The collection includes "Race and the Wider Identity" and the controversial "Women's Identity and the Inner Space." Pages: 336, Dimensions: 14.2x14.2cm