Wisdom and the Senses: The Way of Creativity

by Joan M. Erikson

Book Overview

Joan Erikson explores the crucial role played by the physical sense at every stage of psychological growth from birth to old age, finding parallels between the creation of art as we usually define it and the creation of self--the most artful act of all. In the experience of making and doing, she located a primary source of human growth and vitality. Wisdom and the Senses is itself a celebration of art, with the progressive stages in the life cycle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393307107
• ISBN13: 9780393307108
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Aha! Scholar and Researcher "Gets It" Visually Via Weaving

Having assisted her husband, Erik Erikson, in the research leading up to the classic psychosocial development conceptual framework, Joan Mowat Erikson assumed she understood its significance. Later, when she invited a weaver to represent the same information using 9 carefully chosen colors -- one for each of the eight stages plus gray for the occasional negative events which occur in each person's life -- she was able to clarify the tension between each crisis's polar outcomes.Having introduced numerous students through the years to Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, I was excited to meet this author in print and thrilled to see various weavings in color, helping me to understand in greater depth than before.