1. By Mrs. Rachel Besser
DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL:
DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION
2. ERIKSON'S STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Important
Stage Basic Conflict
Events
Infancy
Trust vs. Mistrust Feeding
( )
(birth - 18 mo.)
Adolescence Identity vs Role
vs. Social
(12 - 18) Confusion Relationships
Young Adult
Intimacy vs. Isolation Relationships
y p
(19 - 40)
3. INFANCY
If you really want to hear about it, the
first thing y
g you'll p y
probably want to know
is where I was born and what my lousy
childhood was like, and how my
parents were occupied and all before
t i d d ll b f
they had me, and all that David
Copperfield kind of crap but I don t
crap, don't
feel like going into it, if you want to
know the truth.
~Chapter 1
4. ADOLESCENCE
Anyway,
Anyway I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this
big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around -
nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some
crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go
over th cliff - I mean if they're running and they d 't look where they're
the liff th ' i g d th don't l k h th '
going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I
do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
Chapter 22
My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one
that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. I'm the only really
dumb one.
Chapter 10
5. YOUNG ADULT
Almost every time
Al t ti
somebody gives me a
present, it ends up
making me sad.
a g e sad
Chapter 7
Don't ever tell anybody
anything. If you do, you
start missing
everybody. ~Chapter 26
6. YOUNG ADULT II
All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold
ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort
of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse,
but I didn't say anything or do anything. The
didn t anything
thing with kids is, if they want to grab for
the gold ring, y have to let them do it,
g g, you ,
and not say anything. If they fall off, they
fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to
them.
Chapter 25