Examining the Thoughts and Actions of Harry Potter Through the Lens of Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages
By:Shannon Smith Carlisle
Published on 2010 by
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels are a coming-of-age story of a young wizard who learns and determines who he is amidst challenging and perilous circumstances. In this dissertation I look at all the Harry Potter novels from a literary criticism perspective. I examine the thoughts and actions of Harry Potter through the lens of Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages. This dissertation draws on the theories of Erik Erikson, renowned developmental psychologist, who proposed that a person works through eight psychosocial stages during the course of a life to develop virtues necessary for healthy and successful emotional development. Harry Potter spends his formative years with relatives who horribly mistreat him. He is unable to develop any Eriksonian virtues due to his environmental deprivation. Harry Potter's life changes when he is accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; for the first time he has surrogate parents, mentors, and friends who all genuinely care about him. There, Harry Potter is able to retroactively work through the stages in which he has deficits and to progress through the stages of the teen years. I trace the progression of Harry Potter through Erikson's psychosocial stages, noting specific instances from the novels that illustrate his maturation from emotional ineptitude to emotional surety.
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