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Lastly is the works of Erik Erikson, who is a complete successor of Freud’s work, using Freud's work as his guidelines. He accepts Freud, but goes on to refine Freud’s tenets wherever he deems necessary, which has caused much controversy. ....

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... When a stage is sufficiently completed, one can pass over into the next stage healthy and strong, which will help him/her to fulfill the rest of the eight stages (Shaffer 103) Neither Freud nor Erikson deal with women extensively in personality development (except in the phallic symbols, etc. which don’t need to be discussed here), but Karen Horney does. She talks about how parents rear their children to be manly/womanly from birth itself, giving them toys “male toys” (guns, soldiers, etc.) and “female toys” (dolls, tea sets, etc.). Another influence would be the sex of the other siblings; a girl surrounded by numerous male siblin ...