Question

According to Erik H. Erikson, what challenge do we face during middle adulthood?

Answer 1

The challenges faced by a normal human during his middle-adulthood (referred to as mid-life), according to Erik Erikson, include a sense of incomplete identity and independence, longing for actions of the youth, an inability to separate social and family life and lastly the question of death – a fear that death is around the corner.

Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst.