...experience which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no matter how dearly paid for. It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something...that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions: it thus means a new, a different love of one's parents. It is a comradeship with the ordering ways...

...need on the part of older persons to review and evaluate their life experiences. If one can accept "one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that by necessity permitted of no substitution" (1950, p. 268), then one feels a sense of integrity in later life, rather than despair....

...toward which he or she moves. Erikson enumerates the attributes of the final stage of development: something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions ... a sense of comradeship with men and women of distant times and of different pursuits who created...

...and sell -absorption. 8. Integrity Vs. Despair (Old age): Integrity is the acceptance of one's own life cycle as something that had to be and that by necessity, permitted no substitution. Despair expresses the feeling that the time is now short, too short for an attempt...

...the acceptance of one's own and only life cycles and of the people who have become significant to it as something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions. It thus means ... an acceptance of the fact that one's life is one's own responsibility (1959/1963:...

...marked by a pull between what Erikson calls "integrity" and what he calls "despair." Integrity is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something...that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions. 7 Despair, the counter-player of integrity, is described by Erikson as follows: The lack of this accrued...

...experience which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no maiter how dearly paid for It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something...that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions: it thus means a new and a different love of one's parents H is a comradeship with the ordering ways...

...one's ineliminable past. Hence, the import of Erikson's well-known definition of ego integrity as "the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something...that by necessity, permitted of no substitutions" (1963 263-69). For it is surely the case that historical psychoanalysis is particularly concerned with...

...despair. "It is the ego's accrued assurance of its proclivity for order and meaning. ... It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be. ..." It means, Erikson wrote, that the "possessor of integrity . . . knows that an individual life...

...around them. In Erikson's (1963) view, resolution on the side of integrity is achieved when there is "acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted no substitutions ..." (p. 268). In a way, people inherit their integrity from themselves, in the sense...