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Revised and expanded in 1963, Childhood and Society is the work of a pioneer who sought to raise [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] to the level of the modern social [[sciences]]. Although he did not [[renounce]] his early Freudianism, Erikson endeavored to provide a new way of [[looking]] at things. When asked what the aims of a normal [[individual]] should be, Freud customarily replied with two [[words]] that Erikson liked to [[recall]]: "[[Love]] and work." Erikson wanted such a maxim to become a psychoanalytic norm.

See also: Anthropology and [[psychoanalysis]]; Erikson, Erik (Homburger); Ego ([[ego psychology]]).