Erikson and the Wild Strawberries

Erikson and the Wild Strawberries In the Life Cycle Completed by Erik H. Erikson, Erikson talks about the stages in life those stages range from infancy to elderly age. The stages are basic trust vs. basic mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. identity confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generatively vs. stagnation, and finally integrity vs. despair. In Wild Strawberries the character Isak Borg goes through all the stages that Erikson talk about in his book Life Cycle Completed and you get a visual understanding of what Erikson means about the stages. The first stage Borg goes through is integrity vs. despair, which is when he has a bad nightmare. In the nightmare, Borg is walking around town and no one is around, then all of a sudden, he hears a clock chiming, he looks at the clock and it does not have any hands. Borg then looks at his watch and he sees it does not have any hands either. All of a sudden Borg turns around there is a person standing there, so Borg walk over to him and turns him around, Borg learns that the man passes away then the blood starts running down the road. Borg then sees a horse and buggy carrying a casket, when the horse stops Borg walks over to casket, when he does; he notices he knows that person. It was Borg in the casket; the he realizes he is afraid of dying alone. In the second scene, which is the departure scene, Borg wakes up and tells his housekeeper he wants to drive to the ceremony instead of flying. Borg and his housekeeper end up fighting because his housekeeper does not want to ride with him that far, so she is not going to go. Marianna, Borg’s daughter in law asks if he would mind if she went with him. Borg and Marianna leave heading to the ceremony, where he is recognized for being a doctor for fifty years. They talk about why Marianna does not like his, and she tells him it is because he is cold and ruthless. In this scene you see the stage identity and