Eriksons amerikanische Erfahrung: Ich- und Gruppen-Identität als Schlüsselbegriffe neuer Integrationsformen

Our present understanding of ›identity‹ goes back to psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's concept of ego and group identity. Subject of this article is the analysis of the ›invention‹ of the modern concept of identity by E.H. Erikson in the USA in the 1940s. Erikson theorizes with it a specific experience: "identity" is meant to describe the changed way of social belonging in a society, in which the natio…