Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

[citation needed] Following her son's birth Karla trained to be a nurse moved to Karlsruhe and in 1905 married a Jewish pediatrician Theodor Homburger. Erikson places some emphasis on the teacher who should ensure that children do not feel inferior. The circumstances of his birth were concealed from him in his childhood.

Erik Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. Erikson is a noted American sociologist.