Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
J Aging Stud. 2022 Sep;62:101057. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101057. Epub 2022 Jul 14.
This paper uses the concept of generativity to challenge the ageist view of older adults' reduced social and economic contributions in a neoliberal economy and support an age-integrated society. It revisits Erik Erikson's life cycle theory and brings forth the argument that the core quality of the seventh stage of human ego development, generativity vs stagnation, transverses all previous developmental stages and creates a forever-moving life cycle through intergenerational connections. Generativity is critical to human ageing as it is closely linked to notions of transfer of knowledge. This paper investigates generativity in relation to ego, libido and ageing. It discusses the ego as the medium of generativity and libido as its source of energy. It also explores how opportunities for intergenerational exchange, transfer of knowledge, and creativity are fashioned to suit the larger economic and socio-cultural context through sublimation. The paper concludes that generativity is the most promising route to an age-friendly society.
本文运用生成性概念，挑战了新自由主义经济中老年人社会和经济贡献减少的年龄歧视观点，并支持一个年龄融合的社会。它重新审视了埃里克·埃里克森的生命周期理论，并提出论点，即人类自我发展的第七阶段（即生成性对停滞性）的核心品质贯穿了所有先前的发展阶段，并通过代际联系创造了一个永不停息的生命周期。生成性对于人类衰老至关重要，因为它与知识转移的概念密切相关。本文探讨了与自我、力比多和衰老有关的生成性。它讨论了自我作为生成性的媒介，以及力比多作为其能量来源。它还探讨了如何通过升华来塑造代际交流、知识转移和创造力的机会，以适应更大的经济和社会文化背景。本文的结论是，生成性是实现友好老龄化社会的最有前途的途径。
