Donald Capps
The Resourceful Self
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Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves. In several earlier books, including At Home in the World, Donald Capps has suggested that the emotional separation of young children--especially boys--from their mothers results in the development of a melancholy self. In this book, Capps employs Erikson's assignment of an inherent strength to each stage of the life cycle and proposes that the life-enhancing strengths of the childhood years (hope, will, purpose, and competence) are central to the development of a resourceful self, and that this self coun…
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Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves. In several earlier books, including At Home in the World, Donald Capps has suggested that the emotional separation of young children--especially boys--from their mothers results in the development of a melancholy self. In this book, Capps employs Erikson's assignment of an inherent strength to each stage of the life cycle and proposes that the life-enhancing strengths of the childhood years (hope, will, purpose, and competence) are central to the development of a resourceful self, and that this self counters the life-diminishing qualities of the melancholy self.Focusing on Erikson's own writings, Capps identifies the four primordial resources that Erikson associates with childhood--humor, play, dreams, and hope--and shows how these resources assist children in confronting life's difficulties and challenges. Capps further suggests that the resourceful self that develops in childhood is central to Jesus' own vision of what we as adults may become if we follow the lead of little children.Capps offers the reader an in-depth and insightful study of how children develop resourceful selves that reflects his five-decades-long scholarly conversation with the works of Freud and Erikson. This work demonstrates Capps's own creative 'way of seeing things' and the artistry of a mature pastoral theologian.--Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VAWith unsurpassed precision and characteristic hope, Donald Capps coaxes from Erik Erikson's clinical essays on children and young people a battery of psychospiritual resources for countering threats of the melancholic self. The reader closes this book with renewed vigor, encouragement, and good cheer for facing the day.--Robert C. Dykstra, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJThe deep struggles of being human are enticed to come out and play with hopeful possibilities that are as real and human as the struggles themselves. They are already there, deep within--in humor and hope, in dreams and play. Donald Capps journeys intimately with Freud and Erikson to reach beyond and discover the resourceful self.--Yolanda Dreyer, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaDonald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology (Emeritus) and AdjunctProfessor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of many books. His Cascade Books titles include Striking Out: The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys (2011); At Home in the World: Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art (2013); Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood (2014); and (coauthored with Nathan Carlin) Living in Limbo: Life in the Midst of Uncertainty (2010).
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4982-2254-9
- EAN: 9781498222549
- Produktnummer: 18696555
- Verlag: Cascade Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 509 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 509
Über den Autor
Donald Capps (1939-2015) was William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology (Emeritus) and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Striking Out (Cascade Books, 2011), At Home in the World (Cascade Books, 2013), Still Growing (Cascade Books, 2014), and The Resourceful Self (Cascade Books, 2014). He is coauthor with Nathan Carlin of Living in Limbo (Cascade Books, 2010) and The Gift of Sublimation (Cascade Books, 2015).
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