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By Erik H. Erikson. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1974. 125 pp.
YOUNG MAN THOREAU. By Richard Lebeaux. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. 262 pp.
Erikson has produced a beguiling and evocative book, and I imagine that the experience of hearing its content delivered (more or less as it appears in the book) must have been a moving one for the audience. When subject to the scrutiny that the permanence of the written word allows, however, it presents a number of problems. The book is not a psychobiography of Jefferson, although a fair amount of space is devoted to some interesting discussion about Jefferson. It is not an essay on the applications of psychoanalysis to the humanities, or even more broadly to human ethical concerns, though it does devote some space to the question of methodology