Erik Homburger Erikson was a German-American psychoanalyst who was most famous for coining the phrase “identity crisis”.
He was also a neo-Freudian psychologist who believes in the Freudian theory and added his own ideas and beliefs. His theory of psychosocial development proposes that all people go through a series of eight stages.
It is during the second major working phase that historians ask a big question, since this is phase after the preliminary research as been completed.